Red Star,0698819,Quartermaster,1371st Sevastopol Rifle Regiment

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Award Card

Order Booklet 804543

1. Last name: Siradze
2. Name and patrionymic: Amiran Kishvardovich
3. Rank: Master Sergeant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 20th August, 1916
6. Birthplace: GSSR, Makharadze Region, village of Vakidshvari
7. Party membership: since 1944
8. Education: mid-level 1938
9. Nationality: Georgian
10. Time in Red Army: 10.1941 – 1.1946
11. Place of service at awarding: Quartermaster Platoon Leader – 1371st Rifle Regiment, 414th Anap Red Banner Rifle Division, Independent Coastal Army
12. Place of work at present: Tbilisi Bread Trade, Tbilisi – Head (?)
13. Home address: GSSR, Tbilisi, Kirov Region, Khutsishvili, 21

14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Red Star 698.819 414th Rifle Division dated 3.7.44

Verified by Kirov Regional Military Commissariat Guards Lieutenant Colonel on 14th April 1947.

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Unit Award Order

SECRET

414th Anap Red Banner Rifle Division Order 026/N dated (?) July, 1944
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 to:

(?). Master Sergeant Amiran Kishvardovich Siradze – Quartermaster Platoon Leader, 3rd Rifle Battalion, 1371st Sevastopol Rifle Regiment

Signed 414th Anap Red Banner Rifle Division Commander General-Major Dzaba(?) and Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Khurtsilava, compiled by Chief of Personnel Administrative Services Captain Latysha, and verified by 55th Rifle Corps Chief of Personnel Lieutenant Colonel Avdeev

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Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Siradze, Amiran Kivshardovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Quartermaster Platoon Leader – (?) Rifle Battalion, 1371st Sevastopol Rifle Regiment, 414th Anap Red Banner Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Banner
4. Born: 1915
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: candidate member since 1943
7. Previous combat: since 1.11.42
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Tbilisi Regional Military Commissariat, GSSR
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: GSSR, Tbilisi, Khukhishvili #21. Wife: Kseniya Zakharovna Siradze

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

In fighting on the approaches to Sevastopol from 28.4.44-12.5.44, Master Sergeant Siradze proved himself bold and valorous, disregarding heavy enemy machinegun, mortar, artillery fire he supplied the battalion with food and ammunition in a timely and continuous manner, not fearing the various difficulties of combat.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 1371st Rifle Regiment, Colonel Managadze on 9.6.44
Endorsed 414th Rifle Division Commander General-Major Dza(?) on 28th June, 1944

Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 414th Rifle Division Order 026/N dated 3.7.44 and signed Chief of Personnel Administrative Services Captain Latynev on 3rd July, 1944.


Will post scans of his Order of the Red Star shortly. . .

[Bill Garvy]

Master Sergeant Amiran Kishvardovich Siradze's Order of the Red Star, #698819.