Order of the Red Star, unnumbered, Sergeant Yuri Fedorovich Grosh

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book (#M136862), undated, issued to Yuri Fedorovich Grosh awarding an Order of the Red Star, 197th Infantry Division, June 1st, 1945, unnumbered.

Award Card dated May 8th, 1997 (Victory Day), Kalynivka, Vinnyts'ka oblast, Ukraine, as Squad Leader 828th Infantry Regiment, an unnumbered Order of the Red Star by the 197th Infantry Division, signed by Colonel E. Chernelevsky of the Regional Military Commissariat.

I do not think Sergeant Grosh received his Order of the Red Star, and may have been deceased at the time this Order Book was given to his family.

Award List (Prikaz), Sergeant Grosh is number 7. listed as Squad Leader of the Rifle Company, 828 Infantry Regiment of Vladimir-Volyn.

Citation reporting the assault on the outskirts of the village of the city of Meysin on May 5th, 1945 wherein Sergeant Grosh assumed command and, following the retreat of the enemy, forty soldiers and officers were, "left behind on the battlefield."

Sergeant Gosh was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, in 1985 as well as the Medal for the Liberation of Prague dated November 28th, 1945, by the Commander of the 14th Guards Rifle Division, Guards Major Kotel'nikov, Serial #A027478.

[Bill Garvy]

Additional documents belonging to Sergeant Grosh were located from another source.

Order Book (#E046649) dated March 19th, 1955 for Combat Service Medal, unnumbered, possibly for long service.

Document for the Medal Victory over Germany dated May 5th, 1946 by the Commander of the 41st Guards Rifle Regiment , Guards Colonel Zatchev, Serial #S072640.

Document for the Badge 25th Anniversary of Victory.

Document for the Medal 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces dated January 9th, 1949 by the Commander of Military Unit 03021, Guards Colonel Fedyayev.

Document for the Medal Capture of Berlin dated December 16th, 1945 by the Commander of the 14th Guards Rifle Division, Guards Major Kotel'nikov, Serial #A337098.

Order Book (#B710324) for the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, 1985 Jubilee issue, #1503724.

Veteran Identification Book, #287267, dated November 17th, 1981

Communist Party Identification Book, #14962880, dated June 15th, 1974 for dues paid 1974 through January, 1991.

Soldier Book, #059702, dated June 30th, 1949 by Commander of Military Unit 03021, Guards Colonel Fedyayev, documenting military service from February 30th (?), 1944 through May 1st, 1949.

Service on the 1st Ukrainian Front September 18th, 1944, 197th Infantry Division, medals for Victory over Germany, Capture of Berlin, Liberation of Prague, & 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces.