Red Star,1282914,Supply Platoon Commander,1279th Rifle Regiment,1st Ukrainian Front

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet 600836

1. Last name: Chkhartashvili
2. Name and patrionymic: Samson Germanovich
3. Rank: Master Sergeant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1914
6. Birthplace: GSSR, Makharadzevskii Region, village of Domum(?)
7. Party membership: since 1939
8. Education: incomplete upper-level
9. Nationality: Georgian
10. Time in Red Army: 13.02.1942
11. Place of service at awarding: 389th Berdichev Red Banner Rifle Division
12. Place of work at present: unemployed due to handicap
13. Home address: Georgia. SSR, Makharadze 1905 St. #5

14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Combat Service Medal 87.343 37th Army dated 6.9.42

Combat Service Medal 829.324 1279th Rifle Regiment dated 4.2.44

Red Star 1.282.914 389th Rifle Division dated 12.8.44

Verified by Makhardze Regional Military Commissariat Chief of 3rd Section Senior Lieutenant Kravchuk on 7th April, 1947

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Chkhartashvili, Samson Germanovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Supply Platoon Leader – 3rd Battalion, 1279th Rifle Regiment, 389th Berdich Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1914
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: since 1943
7. Previous combat: Transcaucasus Front 8.1942, Northern Caucasus Front 2.1943, and 1 Ukrainian Front since 11.1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 12.41, 07.42, and 08.43
9. In Red Army: since 08.1941
10. Inducted by: Makharadze Regional Military Commissariat, GSSR
11. Previous awards: Combat Service Medal by 1279th Rifle Regiment dated 4.2.44
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

He displayed bravery and valor during offensive fighting to penetrate the heavily defended German line near Bozhuv-Gorokhu beginning 13.07.44. During the battalion’s entire offensive Comrade Chakhardashvili’s platoon followed the battalion’s supply of hot food and ammunition, disregarding the impact of enemy fire. On 19.07.44 when Comrade Chakhardashvili received information that the battalion had exhausted its ammunition, he personally forced a fording site on the Western Bug river under heavy enemy fire and delivered ammunition to the far shore of the river.

For selfless duty, for the supply of the battalion with ammunition and food, and for displayed bravery and valor in offensive fighting against the German invaders, he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Regimental Commander Lieutenant Colonel Zhulikhin and Chief of Staff Akimov on 31st July, 1944

Endorsed Commander, 389th Berdichev Rifle Division, Colonel Kolobov on 18 (?)

Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 389th Berdichev Rifle Division 055/N dated 12.8.44 and compiled by Chief of Personnel Administrative Service Captain Mamonov on 12th August, 1944

[Bill Garvy]

Master Sergeant Samson Germanovich Chkhartashvili" Order of the Red Star, #1282914.

My thanks to the Cabbage Man for his invaluable assistance.

[CtahhR]

The place of birth is Mahardze Region (now Ozurgeti District) of Guria. The village looks to be "Domumati" which would translate as "დომუმათი" but it may not exist any more or have been renamed as I'm finding no trace of anywhere in Ozurgeti starting "do".

[Tommy]

Hot food and ammunition, a soldiers favourite things.

Nice Star for the collection, Bill!

[Bill Garvy]

Thank you for your comments, gentlemen. . .

[Bill Garvy]

Research for missing Combat Service Medal, #87343.

Record card of an awardee

[Pallpoint pen note: “Duplicate from another card”]

Form nr. 1

Date and location of issue of the award; republic, krai, oblast, city, raion (to be filled out using a typewriter, without any strikethroughs):

1. Last name: Chkhartishvili
2. First name and patronymic: Samson Germanovich
3. Nationality:
4. Sex:
5. Year of birth: 1916
6. Place of birth:
7. Education: higher, unfinished higher, special secondary, secondary, elementary (underline what’s relevant):
8. Party affiliation:
9. Duty position, profession, military rank (for servicemen), place of work or service at the time of the award (ministry, department, institution, enterprise, organization): Company first sergeant of 9th Rifle Company, 1279th Rifle Regiment
10. Home address of the awardee: Village of Dzhumati, Makharadze Raion, Georgian SSR

11. Awards issued:

Type of award (order, medal, highest title of distinction, honorary title) Number of the order, medal or badge Number of the order booklet, Hero or Mother Heroine booklet, medal or badge certificate or travel document Date and number of the decree about the award
1. Medal for Combat Merit 829324 Temporary certificate nr. A-668264 Order of the 1279th Rifle Regiment nr. 07/N of February 4, 1944
2. Medal for Combat Merit 87343 Temporary certificate nr. 65814 Order of the 37th Army nr. 027/N of September 6, 1942
Then rifleman in the 802nd Rifle Regiment


Signature of the awardee:

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (duty position, signature):



12. Remarks:

[Bill Garvy]

Order

[Pencil: “Transcaucasian Front; October 6, 1942”]

Secret
Copy nr. 2

Order

Of the 37th Army

September 6, 1942 – Nr. 027/N – Active Army, Transcaucasian Front

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, I award:

In the 392nd Rifle Division:

[…]

The Medal for Combat Merit to:

[…]

19. Private Samson Germanovich Chkhartishvili, rifleman in the 802nd Rifle Regiment

[…]

Commander of the 37th Army
Major General [signed] /Kozlov/

Members of the Military Council
Brigade Commissar [signed] /Batnyuk/
Regimental Commissar [signed] /Naidyonov/
Regimental Commissar [signed] /Kumekhov/

Chief of staff
Major General [signed] /Varennikov/



Verified:

Chief of the Personnel Section of the 37th Army
Major [signed] /Gumenyuk/

Military commissar
Battalion Commissar [signed] /Sverchkov/

[Bill Garvy]

Award sheet

Last name, first name and patronymic: Chkhartishvili, Samson Germanovich
Rank: Private
Position and unit: Rifleman in the 1st Battalion, 802nd Rifle Regiment, 392nd Rifle Division, 37th Army
Nominated for: Medal for Courage
1. Year of birth: 1914
2. Nationality: Georgian
3. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1942
4. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party since 1939
5. Participation in combat: Has been participating in the Patriotic War since August 26, 1942
6. Wounds and contusions received: No
7. Awards received previously (for which merits): None
8. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Makharadze Raion
9. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his family): ______________

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

On August 26, 1942, during the offensive toward the town of Pravourvansky, one heavily fortified and camouflaged enemy firing position was firing fiercely. Comrade Chkhartishvili was showing independent initiative and approached and reconnoitered the firing position, after which he took out the position in a timely manner. The enemy machine gun was destroyed and its crew killed.

He deserves to be awarded the Medal for Courage.

Regimental commander
Major [signed] /Beradze/

Regimental military commissar
Battalion Commissar [signed] /Vasadze/
September 1, 1942



Private S.G. Chkhartishvili deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.

Commander of the 392nd Rifle Division
Colonel [signed] /Silagadze/

Commissar of the 392nd Rifle Division
Senior Battalion Commissar [signed] /Dokhadze/
September 3, 1942



He deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.

Commander of the 37th Army
Major General [signed] /Kozlov/

Member of the Military Council
Regimental Commissar [signed] /Naidyonov/
September 6, 1942



By Order of the 37th Army nr. 027/N of September 6, 1942 awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.

Chief of the 2nd Subsection of the Personnel Section of the 37th Army
Quartermaster 2nd Grade [signed] /Averyanov/