Description
Medal for Bravery #3164253 with its medal booklet
Awarded to the Jewish Company Sniper, Guards Private Tsarevsky David Lvovich (Давид Львович Царевский)
For destroying an enemy light machine gun and an artillery spotter with fire from a sniper rifle in the village of Schottwien (Austria) on 4 April 1945
Made of solid silver. The medal for Bravery measures 37.26 mm in diameter and 42.46 mm in height (including the eyelet) and it weighs 27.9 grams without its suspension.
The medal is in excellent, well above average condition with its details crisp and a medium dark patina on both sides. Most (apx 90%) of the original red lacquer is still present and its connection ring has not been cut. The double layer steel suspension is time period to the medal.
Its accompanying medal booklet is nice condition as well with all pages present and firmly attached to the cover. This Medal for Bravery is the only award mentioned so technically this set can be considered a complete grouping
Short excerpt of the research:
24. Rifle Company Sniper, Guards Private Tsarevsky David Lvovich, who in the battle for the
village of Schottwien (Austria) on 4 April 1945, with fire from a sniper rifle, destroyed the
calculation of an enemy light machine gun and an artillery spotter.
Born 1925, Komsomol member, Jewish, inducted into the Red Army in 1943 by Saraktashsky
Regional Military Commissariat, Chkalov Oblast.
The full translation of the research can be read below:
More information on Private Lvovich can be found here
Scarce sniper award in great condition!
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