Red Star,1040516,Squad Commander,106th Guards Rifle Regiment

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet A 547454

1. Last name: Peklov
2. Name and patrionymic: Sergei Ivanovich
3. Rank: Sergeant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1915
6. Birthplace: Zaporozhe Oblast, M. Belozerki
7. Party membership: n/a
8. Education: mid-level
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Time in Red Army: 3.1944-11.1945
11. Place of service at awarding: Warehouse Superintendent – 106th Rifle Regiment, 36th Guards Rifle Division
12. Place of work at present: Vinnitsa Oblast, Bratslav Region, m. Bratslav Regional Consumer Union - Instructor
13. Home address: Vinnitsa Oblast, M. Bratslav, Voroshilov St. #6

14. Awards:

Designation/ Serial Number/ Awarding Organization

Red Star 1.040.516 36th Guards Rifle Division dated 31.12.44

Victory over Germany Meal Edict dated 9.5.1945

Verified by Bratslav Regional Military Commissariat Guards Major Manchenko on 2nd April, 1947


Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Peklov, Sergei Ivanovich
2. Rank: Guards Private
3. Duty position: Squad Leader – Rifle Company, 106th Guards Rifle Regiment, 36th Guards Upper Dnieper Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division

Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star

4. Born: 1915
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: since April, 1944 on the 2nd Ukrainian Front
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 22.8.1944
9. In Red Army: since April 1944
10. Inducted by: Breslav Regional Military Commissariat, Vinnitsa Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

During offensive operations on 11th December, 1944 near the village of Gedele, the squad under the capable command of its leader, attacked into the edge of the village in a surprise attack and became heavily engaged. As a result of superior combat, Comrade Peklov’s squad killed as many as 12 Hitlerites and captured 15 Hungarian soldiers, 13 rifles, and 2 machineguns. Comrade Peklov personally killed four enemy and captured three in this engagement.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 106th Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Colonel Shteiman on 24th December, 1944

[Bill Garvy]

Sergeant Sergei Ivanovich Peklov's Order of the Red Star, #1040516.

My thanks to the Kabbage Man & desantnik.