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For Combat Merits,0089531,Typist,201st Latvian Rifle Division,North-Western Front
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Order Booklet 396610 1. Last name: Saksta 2. Name and Patrionymic: Aleksandra Iosifovna 3. Rank: 4. Sex: Female 5. Birthyear: 1911 6. Birthplace: Riga, Latvian SSR 7. Party Membership: n/a 8. Education: mid-level 9. Nationality: Latvian 10. Service in the Red Army: 1941-1945 11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Political Section, 130 Latvian Rifle Corps – Typist 12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Peoples Commissariat of Defense, Latvian SSR – Personnel Section Inspector 13. Home of Record: Riga, Katolicheskaya St. #33, Apt. 15 14. Awards Award Serial Number Awarder Combat Service Medal 89.531 11 Army dated 7 September 1942 Red Star 1.539.082 130 Latvian Rifle Corps dated 17 May 1942 Verified 8 December 1945 by Latvian SSR Commissariat Chief of Personnel Major of Administrative Services Gafarov Unit Award Listing SECRET North Western Front, 11 Army Order #01569 dated 7 September 1942 On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award to members of the 201 Latvian Rifle Division the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s orders in the struggle against the German invaders and for displaying valor and courage: Combat Service Medal 29. Senior Sergeant Aleksandra Iosifovna Saksta – Typist, Division Political Section Co-signed by the 11 Army Commander General-Lieutenant Morozov and Member of the Military Council Regimental Commissar Malov Award Citation Award Sheet 1. Last name, name, patrionymic: Saksta, Aleksandra Iosifovna 2. Rank: Senior Sergeant 3. Duty position: Typist – Political Section, 201 Latvian Rifle Division Application for the Combat Service Medal 4. Born: 1912 5. Nationality: Pole 6. In Red Army: since October 1941 7. Party membership: n/a 8. Combat participation: Western Front, Klin Axis; North Western Front at Staraya Russa 9. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a 10. Previous decorations: n/a 11. Inducted by: volunteer 12. Home of record: Latvian SSR, Riga Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment Comrade Saksta has worked in the division since its formation and is a participant of the division’s fighting on the Western and North Western Front, as well as presently in the destruction of the 16 German Army. She is disciplined, steadfast, dedicated to the Lenin-Stalin Party, and serves as an example as a woman-patriot to her Motherland. She was among the first women of the division’s HQ to donate to the division’s tank drive, giving a most valuable momento – a golden ring. Working during any combat conditions from aerial bombing to artillery shelling, she has proven herself a bold, composed, and accomplished in the political section’s combat assignments. Comrade Saksta is fully deserving of the Combat Service Medal. Signed 201 Latvian Rifle Corps Political Section Battalion Commissar Krumin on 3 September 1942 Endorsed 201 Latvian Rifle Division Commander General-Major Veikin and Regimental Commissar Zuris on 3 September 1942 Awarded the Combat Service Medal by 11 Army Order 0196 dated 7 September 1942, verified by Army Chief of Personnel Colonel (?) on 9 September 1942 |
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