For Combat Merits,1714756,Medic,342nd Separate Medical-Sanitary Battalion,Hungary

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #1714756.

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Awarded to Mihail Andreevich Bestalannyj on 2nd February 1945.

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1. Family, Name And Patronym, Bastalannyj, Mihail Andreevich
2. Rank, Junior Sergeant
3. Position, Unit, Medic, 342nd Separate Medical-Sanitary Battalion, 297th Rifle Slavjansk-Kirovograd Division
Presented for the Medal "For Combat Merits"
4. Year Of Birth, 1911
5. Nationality, Ukrainian
6. Party Membership, Non-Partisan.
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War (where, when) Patriotic War from 10-1943 to 12-1943 3rd Ukrainian Front. From 12-1943 to current time 2nd Ukrainian Front
8. Had Which Wounds And Contusions in the Patriotic War, Wounds and contusions not had.
9. Since What Time In Red Army, From October 1943.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat Called, Zaporizh'e Regional Military Commissariat, Zaporizh'e Oblast.
11. Has which awards (for which distinction), Has not been awarded.

Comrade Bestalannyj, M. A. working in the held position from January 1944. For this time has shown himself to be an exceptionally honourable, executive worker with a conscientious attitude to entrusted affairs.
In the period of combat operations days without sleep or rest working to carry the wounded to provide them help. In total he has carried himself 460 heavily wounded fighters and officers.
Especially excelling in the time of activities of our Division in Hungary. During several days tirelessly worked to service the wounded, sensitive and attentive in caring for every one of them, in every possible way reducing their suffering.
Worthy of the Governmental Award Medal "For Combat Merits"
Commander of the 342nd Separate Medical-Sanitary Battalion
Major Medical Service Krubelev
17th January 1945