Red Star,1616396,Squad Leader,47th Army Headquarters Separate Guard Company

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, patrionymic: Lavrishchev, Spiridon Ivanovich
2. Rank: Corporal
3. Duty position: Traffic Controller – Traffic Control Platoon, 47th Independent Guard Company

Application for the Combat Service Medal
4. Born: 1906
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Participation in combat: Crimean and Northern Caucasus Fronts
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded
9. In Red Army: since 1941
10. Previous awards: n/a
11. Inducted by: Krasnodar, Gogol St. #51
12. Home of record: Leningrad, Tekstilshchika St. #7, Apt. 65

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
He arrived in the company in May, 1943. He is self-disciplined. He knows his responsibilities and weapon well. He attentively executes security patrols. He is a participant of fighting on the Crimean and Northern Caucasus Fronts, during which time he was wounded.
He is deserving of the Combat Service Medal.
Signed Commander, Independent Guard Company, Captain Rabinskii on 22nd February, 1944
Endorsed Army Chief of Staff, General-Major Filippovskii on 25th February, 1944

Awarded the Combat Service Medal by Order 08/N of the 47th Army dated 7.3.1944. Verified by 47th Army Deputy Chief of Personnel Captain of Administrative Services Sklyarov on 18th March, 1944.

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book. . .