For Bravery,3140840,Rifleman,279th Guards Rifle Division,Manchuria

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book, medal is missing.

Document for the Medal Victory over Japan issued September 19th, 1950 by the Commander of the 41st Guards Regiment, Serial #D086501.

[Bill Garvy]

Prikaz

279th Guards Order of the Red Banner and Suvorov Rifle Division
91st Guards Dukhovshchinskoy Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner and Suvorv Rifle Division

Zabaykal’skiy Front
“22nd” September, 1945 Order No. 039-N

On behalf of the Presidium of the Council of the Union SSR awards:

Medal “FOR BRAVERY”

19. Rifleman, 5th Rifle Company, Guards Private STARTSEV, Nikolai Timofeevich, for the fact that during the fighting for the destruction of the Japanese troops in Manchuria on August 9th, 1945 destroyed boldly and decisively during clashes with small enemy groups, he bravely went on the attack and leads his other comrades.
Born 1927, Russian, not a party member, drafted into the Red Army in 1944 Volsheliksky Regional Military Commissariat, Omsk Oblast. No awards and no injuries. Home address: (intentionally obscured)

Commander Regiment
Guards Major Deryabin

Chief of Staff
Guards Senior Lieutenant Pashkov

September 21st, 1945