Red Star,0968393,Section Instructor,Universal Military Training,Latvian SSR

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Here is Red Star #968393.

Rather tired but honestly so. It was ground dug in Latvia.

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1. Family, Gerasimchuk
2. Name And Patronym, Grigorij Maksimovich
3. Military Rank, Senior Lieutenant
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1919
6. Place Of Birth, Kamenets-Podol'skij Oblast, Polonnoe Region, Malo Labunt
7. Party Membership, Member VKP/b/ January 1945
8. Education, Average
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From September 1939.
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, Instructor Of A Section, Section of Universal Military Training, Republic Military Commissariat of the Latvian SSR.
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Instructor, Section of Universal Military Training, Republic Military Commissariat of the Latvian SSR.
13. Home address of awarded, Riga, Gertrude 19/21 Apartment #7.

Red Star 968393 Temporary Document G-543907 Order of the 2nd Baltic Front #174/N 19-12-1944
Medal "For The Defence Of Leningrad"
Medal "For Victory Over Germany"

Assistant Head of 3rd Unit Military Commissariat Of The Latvian SSR Captain Rapaport
14th February 1946

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1. Family, Name And Patronym, Gerasimchuk, Grigorij Maksimovich
2. Rank, Senior Lieutenant
3. Position, Unit, Temporary Acting Instructor Of A Section Of General Military Training Of The Military Commissariat Of The Latvian SSR.
Presented for the Order "Red Star".
4. Year Of Birth, 1919
5. Nationality, Ukrainian
6. Party Membership, Candidate for Membership VKP(b) from 1943.
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/ In the war with White Finns 1940 and in the Patriotic War in 1941 on the Leningrad Front.
8. Had Which Wounds And Contusions in the Patriotic War One heavy wound 1941.
9. Since What Time In Red Army, 1939.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat Called, Sahnovschina Regional Military Commissariat, Har'kov Oblast, UkSSR.
11. Has which awards (for which distinction), Not had

Participant of the war with White Finns, where twice wounded. Participant in the Patriotic War. Heavily wounded in the battle for Luga. Working in the capacity of instructor of a section of general military training of Novosibirisk Oblast Military Commissariat. Good reviews, gratitudes and repeatedly takes the leading role.

Positioned in service in the Military Commissariat Of The Latvian SSR shows himself to be an energetic, executive officer, in good faith performing all the tasks of the commanders. Morally-Politically sound, Ideologically stable. Loyal to the affairs of the Party of Lenin-Stalin and Socialist Homeland.

As a participant in the war with White Finns and participant in the Patriotic War, being heavily wounded in battle for the Socialist Homeland. As a disciplined and stable officer, for good results in work is presented for award of the Order "Red Star"
Military Commissar Of The Latvian SSR Major-General Malahovskij
15th November 1944

As he was still alive to sign his papers on 14th February 1946, he can not have possibly lost it in battle. He could have lost it whilst working, the children could have taken it and lost it in the fields. One way or another it spent a long time under the soil of Latvia - though not lost in combat.

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Here is a picture of the recipient, no Red Star on chest, but certainly a wound stripe.