Red Star,0138432,Company Commander,4th Engineer Vehicle Motor Pool,Kalinin Front

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1. Award card

Order booklet 866695
1. Last name: Erokhovets
2. Name and Patrionymic: Gavril Aleksandrovich
3. Rank: Major
4. Sex: Male
5. Birthyear: 1914
6. Birthplace: Minsk Oblast, Er(?) Region, Pliskii Selsovet
7. Party Membership: member since 1939
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Service in the Red Army: 6.1936-2.1946
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: 4 Independent Engineer Vehicle Motor Pool, Supreme Commander’s Reserve – Bridging Company Commander
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Demobilized. Pan(?). Chief of the Military Section
13. Home of Record: Panevezhis, Respublika St. Lithuanian SSR
14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder

Red Star 138.432 Kalinin Front dated 23.5.1943

Defense of Moscow Medal Edict dated 1.5.44

Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.1945

Verified 29 June 1946 by Major (?) of the Panavezhskii Municipal Military Commissariat

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Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Erokhovets, Gavriil Aleksandrovich
2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Bridging Vehicle Company Commander – 4 Independent Engineer Vehicle Motor Pool, RGK

Application for the Order of the Red Star

4. Birthyear: 1914
5. Nationality: Belorussian
6. Party membership: yes
7. Participation in earlier military actions: no
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since October 1937
10. Inducted by: Smolevicheskii Regional Military Commissariat, Minsk Oblast
11. Awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Belorussian SSR, Minsk Oblast, Smolevicheskii Region, village of Plisa

Short description of personal combat feat or service

While accomplishing missions constructing bridges on military routes of the 39, 43, 41 Armies and 3 and 4 Shock Armies, Comrade Erokhovets achieved excellent results in accomplishing the company’s mission supplying mechanization to the construction of twelve high-suspension bridges measuring in total 1740 meters and the building of five bridges ahead of schedule. Through his personal leadership of the personnel’s training and mechanization and supervision of the mechanical devices on the bridges, Comrade Erokhovets supplied the company’s continuous and high-quality construction, frequently while under enemy artillery fire.
For their mission accomplishment of bridge construction, 64 members of the company received congratulatory certificates from the command and six commanders and soldiers were recommended for awards.
For ahead-of-schedule accomplishment of the Kalinin Front Command’s combat missions and displaying initiative he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 4 Independent Engineer Vehicle Motor Pool, RGK, Engineer-Major Tanychin on 29 April 1943

Endorsed Kalinin Front Chief of Engineer Forces, General-Major of Engineer Forces Kosarev on 19 May 1943

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Order Book. . .

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Order of the Red Star, #138432. . .

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Service Record, sadly, no picture. . .

1. Last Name, Name, and Patrionymic: Erokhovets, Gavriil Aleksandrovich
2. Birth date and place: 10 February, 1914. Plissa, Smolevicheskii Region, Minsk Oblast
3. Nationality: Belorussian
4. Knowledge of Foreign Languages: n/a
5. Social position and upbringing: office worker from peasant-collective farm worker family
6. Party Membership: since 1939, #3183839
7. Education
General: graduated seventh grade – Smolevichi, Minsk Oblast in 1939
Military: graduated Junior Lieutenants Course, Belorussian Special Military District (accelerated course) in 1939
Political: n/a
8. Service in combat: Liberation of Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia 8.1939-9.1939, Patriotic War on the Central Front 22.6.1941-12.1941, Kalinin Front 12.1941-8.1942, 1 Baltic Front 8.1942-1.1944, Leningrad Front 9.1944-9.05.1945, and Transbaikal-Amur Front 8.1945-3.09.1945
9. Wounds or shell-shock: lightly wounded in right leg in August 1944
10. Awards: Red Star in 1942, Defense of Moscow Medal in 1944, Victory over Germany Medal in 1945
11. In captivity or encirclement: n/a
12. On record:
13. On file: Panevezhskii OUVK, Lithuania SSR
14. Promotions: JR LT 5 May 1939, LT 1942 by 30 Army, SR LT 8 SEP 1942 Kalinin Front, Captain 23 May 1943 by Kalinin Front, Major 26 OCT 19441 Baltic Front
15. Category: Commander reserve, 1 Category
16. Branch: Engineer Troops, specialty 52
17. Health: healthy
18. Call-ups:
19. Present employment: Panevezhie, Lithuania – Director of Military Section
20. Family situation: married. Wife – Agafiya Petrovna Erokhovets, b. 1918, daughter – Valentina, b. 1940, daughter – Lyudmila, b. 1947, Panavezhie, Respublikanskaya St. #41
21. Special remarks: Military ID – Series AV #22484 issued 28.10.1948
22. Service in the Armed Forces:

Private 48 Indep. Sapper Company, 25 Tank Bde, Polotsk 5.1936
Jr Commander Same, Polk 10.1937
Cadet Jr Lt Course, Belorussian Sp. Mil. Dist. 10.1938
Tng Plt. Ldr 31 Indep. Bridging-Pontoon Bn, Brest 5.1939
Tech Comp Cdr 60 Indep. Moto-Bridging Bn 7.1941
Company Cdr 4 Indep. Engineer Vehicles Motor Pool, RGK 2.1942
Company Cdr Same, 1 Baltic Front 4.2.1944
Dep Btn Cdr 23 Indep. Engineer-Sapper Bn 1.1945
Same Same, Transbaikal Front 9.1945

Verified by Panevezhskii Combined District Military Commissariat Chief Guards Colonel Yatsenko and Chief of Personnel Guards Major Pavlenko on 28 October 1948

23. Released into the reserves: 1 Category with rank of major according to para. 43 #1 by Order 095/ of the Chief of Engineer Forces, Red Army dated 29.01.1946
24. Retired with rank:
25. Verifications: