Order of the Red Star, #999834, 3rd Forward Technical Company, 2nd Baltic Front Chemical Detachment

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book (#342712) dated January 8th, 1946.


Unit Award Order

SECRET

3rd Baltic Front Order 040/N dated 21st February, 1945

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:

18. Corporal Aleksei Davidovich Zoloedov – Soldier, 3rd Frontal Technical Company (seriously wounded twice)

Signed 3rd Baltic Front Commander General of the Army Maslennikov and Member of the Military Committee General-Major Lopachev

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Award Sheet

[trans: Handwritten abbreviation for “Order of the Red Star”]

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Zoloedov, Aleksei Davidovich
2. Rank: Corporal
3. Duty position: Soldier – 3rd Technical Company
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1914
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: in Patriotic War since November, 1941
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded and shell-shocked three times
9. In Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Voroshilovgrad Regional Military Commissariat, Voroshilovgrad Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Corporal Zoloedov has been a participant of the Patriotic War since November 1941. As a private in the Western Front’s 34th Rifle Brigade Independent Anti-Tank Rifle Company he was seriously wounded by a bullet in the right arm during an attack on the village of Novaya, Torusskii Region, Tula Oblast on 29th December, 1941.

After recuperation he was returned to a 4th Army, 333rd Rifle Division, 1122nd Rifle Regiment submachinegun company where during the assault on Velish on 17th January, 1943 he received his second serious wound in the right shoulder.

After another release from the hospital he returned to the 2nd Baltic Front, 23rd Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion, 1st Company and near Novosokolniki he received his third serious wounded in the leg and was shell-shocked.

Since 26th September. 1944 he has served in the 3rd Frontal Technical Company and during this time has proved himself a disciplined, productive Red Army soldier.

Conclusion: For active participation in the Patriotic War in the struggle against the German invaders he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 3rd Independent Frontal Technical Company, Senior Lieutenant Krapivin on (?) February, 1945

Endorsed Chief, 2nd Baltic Front Chemical Detachment, Colonel Filippov on 17th February, 1945

Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 3rd Belorussian Front Order 040 dated 21st February, 1945, signed Chief of Personnel 3rd Section (?)


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Corporal Aleksei Davidovich Zoloedov's Order of the Red Star, #999834

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Bill, a very nice group. He certainly deserved his award having been wounded so many times.

Cheers, Ade.