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11-13-2022 05:09 PM
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Perhaps you can get the Record card from the archives and with that know the Bravery medal's serial number. Who knows it shows up at Ebay or a dealers website. I don't mind to help to keep an eye out on that Bravery medal to see if it shows up somewhere.
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Thanks Marcel much appreciated.
Yes I will try and obtain the record card
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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Translated one page of the documents…..
‘August 24 1942. Whilst in the 437th Rifle Regiment in the Smolensk region in an offensive battle with fire from personal weapons , he disabled five enemy soldiers and when capturing the trenches, using grenades, destroyed up to eight Nazis in hand to hand combat. He received shrapnel wounds in the ensuing battle.
November 22-23 1944 during the cleansing of the Sorve peninsula (Estonia) in an area of continuous fire, he fixed eight breaks in the communications wire thereby ensuring continuity of communication and the ability to control fire which made it possible to neutralise three enemy artillery batteries in a timely manner and disperse two companies of enemy infantry counterattacks’.
Last edited by Woolgar; 11-14-2022 at 07:03 PM.
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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A brave man! Good to see you keeping the memory and his brave deeds alive by doing this research and sharing it here.
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Congratulations Nick on a great find
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