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Civil War Veteran Identification Book
Hard-covered Identification Book of a Civil War Veteran, GV724370, dated July 17th, 1923 to Sergei Romanovich Pravdyuk, with photograph of very young boy, perhaps an adopted orphan son of the regiment, from Pravdyuki, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR, served October 21st, 1920 to April 17th, 1922, no awards nor wounds. (Note one word is misspelled, учавствовал, which should be участвовал from часть.)
Last edited by Bill Garvy; 03-31-2018 at 02:47 PM.
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03-30-2018 08:18 PM
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Hello Bill,
I have an interesting theory, which I cannot really prove. But it's quite possible option.
His name was possibly made up when he, as an orphan, was adopted by a regiment.
You see his surname resembles the name of the village he came from. And his patronymic resembles the district he came from.
So it is possible (and happened for sure) that the nameless orphans were given artificial names.
Of course, the surname could be just because his family has the name after the village they lived in. So I was hesitating at fist to suggest this. But when I noticed that the patronymic is also resembling a geographical location from the same area, I though this theory has some merit.
But no way to prove, I am afraid.
I could not find him on podvignaroda.ru
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Bill Garvy
"...perhaps an adopted orphan son of the regiment..."
Precisely what I was endeavoring to convey...
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