For Bravery,2836339,Rifleman,244th Guards Rifle Regiment,82nd Guards Rifle Division

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Certificate 464160

1. Last name: Berket
2. Name and patrionymic: Grigorii Petrovich
3. Rank: Reserve Guards Junior Sergeant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1910
6. Birthplace: Ukrainian SSR, Nikolaev Oblast, Novaya-Odessa
7. Party membership: n/a
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Time in Red Army: 23.3.1944-15.11.1945
11. Place of service at awarding: Squad Leader – 244 Guards Rifle Regiment, 82 Guards Rifle Division
12. Place of work at present: “Five-Year-Plan” Workers’ Cooperative, Novo-Odessa - Security Guard
13. Home address: UkSSR, Nikolaev Oblast, Novo-Odessa, Kirov St. #8
14. Awards:

Designation/Serial Number/Awarding Organization

Bravery Medal 2.836.339 244th Guards Rifle Regiment dated 22.5.1945

Capture of Berlin Medal Edict dated 9th June, 1945

Liberation of Warsaw Medal Edict dated 9th June, 1945

Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9th May, 1945

Verified by Novo-Odessa Regional Military Commissariat Captain of Administrative Services Bogachev on 22nd June, 1946

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

244th Guards Red Banner Rifle Regiment, 82nd Guards Zaporozhe Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division Order 63/N dated 22nd May, 1945

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR I award the Bravery Medal to:

3. 3rd Rifle Battalion Rifleman Guards Junior Sergeant Grigorii Petrovich Berket who in combat on 24.4.45 on the Spree river bridgehead with a group of soldiers assaulted a building and with his assigned firearm killed four German soldiers, thus permitting the successful advance of our infantry.

Signed Commander, 244th Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Lieutenant Colonel K. Pyv[trans: rest of name cut-off]

Compiled in 4 copies
1-3 in 82nd Guards Rifle Division Personnel Section
4 in Regimental Folder

My thanks to Al-muell, Auke, and desantnik for all their assistance!