Red Star,1496149,Nurse,Temporary Military-Medical Train #1041,2nd Belorussian Front

[Bill Garvy]

Will post the Red Star upon receipt later next week. In the meantime I thought you might enjoy the documentation.

Record card

Order booklet nr. 197145

1. Last name: Prokudina
2. First name and patronymic: Anna Nikolayevna
3. Military rank: Private
4. Sex: Female
5. Year of birth: 1922
6. Place of birth: Moscow Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Not a party member
8. Education: Medical school
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: From 1941 to 1946
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and duty position at the time of the award: Private with the 2nd Belorussian Front
12. Current place of service and duty position: Nurse at ___ hospital
13. Home address of the awardee: Village of Kveda-Sakara, Zestafoni Raion, Georgian SSR
14. Record of all awards presented:

Names of the orders and medals Their numbers Numbers of the documents Ground of award

Order of the Red Star 1496189 853766 Order of the 2nd Belorussian Front nr. 0900/N of August 13, 1945

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee:

Chief of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Zestafoni Raion
Senior Lieutenant [signed]
May 15, 1946

SPOILER: There is a clerical error on the reverse of the Award Card, ahem. . .

[Bill Garvy]

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Prokudina, Anna Nikolayevna
2. Rank: Private
3. Duty position and unit: Junior nurse with Temporary Military-Medical Train nr. 1041
Nominated for: Medal for Combat Merit
4. Year of birth: 1922
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Not a party member
7. Participation in the Civil War, the following combat actions for the defense of the USSR and the Patriotic War (where and when): Has been participating in the Patriotic War with Mobile Field Hospital nr. 2790 from July 1941 to July 1944 and from February 1945 up to the present time with Temporary Military-Medical Train nr. 1041
8. Wounds and contusions received: Received a severe wound: a fracture of the right thigh on July 6, 1944 with Mobile Field Hospital nr. 2790
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since July 1941
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the city of Ryazan
11. Which earlier awards (for which merits): None
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: 85 Drovyanaya Street, city of Skopin, Moscow Oblast. Sister: Zinaida Nikolayevna Prokudina

Short, concrete description of the personal combat feat or merits:

Since the start of the war, Anna Nikolayevna Prokudina has continuously been serving as a junior nurse. She devotes herself to her work and with love and care looks after the wounded and ill. During the fighting for the socialist motherland she received a severe wound. Through lessons she improves her medical skills. She is ideologically stable and disciplined. Comrade A.N. Prokudina deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.

Chief of Temporary Military-Medical Train nr. 1041
Major of Medical Service [signed] /Likeshkadze/
May 16, 1945



She deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.

Chief of Temporary Evacuation Point nr. 577
Colonel of Medical Service [signed] /Nevsky/
May 18, 1945

She deserves to be awarded the Medal for Bravery.

Chief of the Medical Department of the 2nd Belorussian Front
Major General of Medical Service [signed] /K. Zhukov/
… 31, 1945


By Order of the 2nd Belorussian Front nr. 0900 of August 13, 1945 awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Assistant chief of the 3rd Section of the Personnel Section of the 2nd Belorussian Front
[signed]

[Al-muell]

Nice upgrading - BM to CSM than to the ORS.

[Bill Garvy]

Private Anna Nikolayevna Prokudina's Order of the Red Star, #1496149.

Note the clerical error on the Award Card listing her Order of the Red Star as #1496189. Here is the list with Private Anna Nikolayevna Prokudina's name and the correct Order of the Red Star number, #1496149. The entry is second from the bottom.

[Bill Garvy]

Order

Secret
Copy nr. 2

Order

Of the 2nd Belorussian Front

August [13], 1945 – Nr. 0900 – Active Army

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for exemplary accomplishment of the command’s combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the hereby displayed bravery and courage, I award:

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The Order of the Red Star to:

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15. Private Anna Nikolayevna Prokudina, Junior Nurse with Temporary Military-Medical Train nr. 1041

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Commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front
Marshal of the Soviet Union [signed] /Rokossovsky/

Member of the Military Council of the 2nd Belorussian Front
Lieutenant General [signed] /Subbotin/

Chief of the Personnel Section of the 2nd Belorussian Front
Colonel [signed] /Sergeyenko/