Russia – Soviet: A Berlin offensive Neisse river breakthrough Medal for Bravery awarded to Guards Private N.T. Golubchenko, 25th Guards ‘Vistula’ Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Order of Alexander Nevsky Rifle Regiment, 6th Guards Rifle Division for repairing 4 communications breaks and when encountering a group of enemy soldiers killing 2 of them.
Medal for Bravery, type 2, reverse numbered 3199911
Condition: some of the red enamel lettering still present, Very Fine
Nikolai Timofeevich Golubchenko was born in 1923 and lived in the village of Novoye Sech, Khotinsky District, Sumy Oblast before joining the Red Army on 8th March 1945 by conscription by field military commissariat in the city of Sorau in Gemany, this possibly indicating he was a liberated prisoner of war or forced labourer.
He would be decorated with this Medal for Bravery by Order of the 25th Guards ‘Vistula’ Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Order of Alexander Nevsky Rifle regiment on 24th September 1945.
‘Telephonist, Signals Company, Guards Private Golubchenko Nikolai Timofeevich, for the following: while breaching the enemy’s defences on the river Neisse on 16th April 1945, under mortar and machine gun fire, he repaired 4 communications breaks and, encountering a group of enemy soldiers, kept his wits about him and killed 2 Germans.’
Surviving this war, the medal was presented to him at the Headquarters of the 25th Guards ‘Vistula’ Rifle Regiment on 24th September 1945.
