Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War Soviet Union pair awarded to Guards Private Evdokii Petornva Volobuyeva, a female medic serving with the 270th Guards Rifle Regiment

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Medal for Combat Service, 2nd type, silver and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1638949’; Medal for Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze, very fine (2) £70-£90

Evdokii Petorvna Volobyeva was born in Stavropol Krai, Russia, in 1912, and served as a female medic with the 207th Guards Rifle Regiment, 70th Guards Rifle Division, 38th Army, on the 4th Ukrainian Front from 1 September 1944 to 6 March 1945. She was wounded in action on 3 October 1944, and was awarded the Medal for Combat Service, the official citation stating: ‘She was part of a section that took care of seriously wounded soldiers.’

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