Order of Glory II awarded to a 4 Time Bravery medal Cavalier !

[Marcel Banziger]

One of my recent additions is a very nice Order of Glory 2nd class awarded to Sergeant Ivan Ivanovich Zubarev (Иван Иванович Зубарев). Ivan was a very brave soldier since he received twice the Order of Glory and a stunning 4 times the medal for Bravery! Not many soldiers were awarded this medal so often and these were sometimes equally seen as a HSU or a Glory Cavalier as the following pic shows from a memorial:



Hereby the actual Order of Glory II with serial # 12968 which comes in worn condition. The suspension is a replacement and the connecting had been cut unfortunately.

[Marcel Banziger]

The citation for this Order of Glory reads as follows:

“On the night of 16-17 March 1945, he was a member of a reconnaissance team on a mission for capturing an enemy prisoner-informant. Having penetrated into the area 1.5 km behind the enemy line west of the settlement Prusy (Latvia), they established an ambush position at a main road. When two walking German soldiers approached the position, ZUBAREV was among the first to rush to the enemy. One German was killed. The other one was captured and delivered to the regiment headquarters.

On their return trip, they encountered a group of German soldiers and opened fire killing several of them. Our reconnaissance squad suffered no casualties and returned back to the base. The captured prisoner-informant provided valuable intelligence.

He deserves state award – order “GLORY III CLASS”.”

Interesting to see is that the citation was typed on captured German paper.

[Marcel Banziger]

Hereby Ivan's impressive Record card. Awards for a true hero and brave fighter!

[Woolgar]

A true warrior!

Nick

[VasOnARitz]

Very interesting and beautiful.

[Gerry C]

Marcel,

Thanks for the write up and the showing of his OG II. Nice to know his feats and service will be saved and recognized by future generations.

Gerry C.

From the Finally Rainy High Plains of the Midwest U.S.A.