Red Star,3643542,Arc Welder,99th Heavy Tank Regiment,1945 Catch-Up 1981

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book, Red Star is missing. . .

(Scans used with permission)

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

Last name, name, and patrionymic: Eglit, Alfred Matveevich
Rank: Guards Red Army Man
Duty position: Electric welder, 99th Heavy Tank Regiment, 42nd Smolensk Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd Class Independent Guards Heavy Tank Brigade
Recommendation for Order of the Red Star
Born: 1915
Nationality: Latvian
Party membership: non-member
Previous combat: participant in the Great Patriotic War since 1942
Wounds or shell-shock: lightly wounded September, 1941, severely wounded August, 1942
Time in Red Army: since 18th June, 1941
Inducted by: Drafted from the Ordzhonikize Regional Military Commissariat, Leningrad Oblast
Home of record: (intentionally obscured)

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

During combat operations from 15th January to 6th May, 1945, Comrade Eglit, without regard for time, repaired wheeled and combat vehicles. When vehicles failed on the field of battle Comrade Eglit carried out repairs under enemy fire. In battle Comrade Eglit has performed routine 67 and 23 medium repairs. For bravery and irreproachably reliable work, Comrade Eglit deserves the government award the Order of the Red Star.

99th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment
Guards Major Litvinenko
18th May, 1945

Worthy of the Government Award Order “Red Star”
Brigade Commander 42nd Independent Guards Heavy Tank Smolensk Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Brigade
Guards Colonel Skalabanov
18th May, 1945

Awarded by Order of the Commander 38th Army, No. 013/N of May 18th, 1945, the Order “Red Star”
Adjutant to the Commander, 38th Army
Senior Lieutenant Saraykin

[Bill Garvy]

Secret

PRIKAZ

Commander of the Armored & Mechanized Troops of the 38th Army

“18th” May 1945 Active (?) Army

No. 13/N

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for having displayed valor and bravery:

Order of the Red Star:

11. Guards Private Eglit, Alfred Matveevich, Electric Welder 99th Heavy Tank Regiment, 42nd Smolensk Red Banner “Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd Class” Independent Guards Heavy Tank Brigade.

Commander of the Armored & Mechanized Troops of the 38th Army
Colonel Pakhomov

Chief of Staff 38th Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Zudov
May 22nd, 1945


My thanks to RedMaestro2 for his invaluable assistance!