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Auction: 8016 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 498

Russia, Soviet Union, Order of Glory, Third Class, 2nd type breast Badge, with riband suspension, 46mm, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ´5676´, very fine and a low-numbered award Russia, Soviet Union, Order of Glory, Third Class, 2nd type breast Badge, with riband suspension, 46mm, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ´565484´, good very fine, with copied service papers confirming the numbered award (2) Estimate £ 60-80 The Citation, dated 17.11.1945, states: ´´The aid-man of the 42nd Rifle Regiment, 180th Rifle Division, 38th Army, 1st Ukrainian Front, took part in fights against the German occupants from 12 November 1943 to 24 December 1943, and received a heavy wound in the left leg involving a bone injury at Makeyevka village, Grebensly district, Kievskaya Oblast. He was under treatment at evacuation hospital 1591 from 28 December 1943 until 26 April 1944. As a result of the wound, the leg was shortened by 6 cm. Currently, he is a disabled veteran of the Patriotic War and works in the Nove Zhittya kolkhoz, V. Vilshaina village, Vasilkovsky District, Kievskaya Oblast. He takes his work with great responsibility.´´ Red Army Man Alexander Akimovich Byshenko, born Ukraine, 1908; served on the Ukrainian Front, 12.11-24.12.1943; heavily wounded 24.12.1943; Awarded the Order of Glory, Third Class (No. 565484).

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