World Orders and Decorations 652


Romania, Kingdom, Aviation Corps Military Pilot’s Badge, a fine quality Great War silver badge, the Royal cipher in blue enamel, with vertical pin to reverse, unmarked, a scarce variant of the badge believed to have been produced in Paris, good very fine


£100-£140


653


Russia, Empire, Medal for the Crimean War 1853-56, bronze; Medal for the Memory of Alexander III 1881-1894, silver; Nicholas II Coronation Medal 1896, silver; Commemorative medal for the 300th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty 1613-1913, bronze, first two lacking large loop suspensions, generally very fine (4)


£100-£140 654 655


Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the Star of Karageorge, Officer’s breast badge, with Swords, 67mm including crown suspension x 43mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, enamel somewhat scuffed in parts, therefore nearly very fine £180-£220


Spain, Kingdom, Spanish Medal for San Sebastian 5 May 1836, silver unnamed, with claw and small ring suspension, fitted with contemporary top silver riband buckle, minor edge nicks, nearly extremely fine


£300-£400 656


Sweden, Kingdom, Storms Life Saving Medal, 36mm, silver, the obverse featuring the Royal shield of Sweden with date 1912, the reverse engraved ‘Minnesmedalj till Major C. G. Drake, Oegennyttigt Arbete för Riksland Storm Stävlingen 1919’ within wreath, good very fine


£80-£120 Awarded to Major C. G. Drake for selfless work during the Riksland Storms of 1919. 657 A Second War Soviet Order of Glory group of three awarded to Private A. E. Kolesnik, 847th Mortar Rifle Regiment


Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of Glory, 3rd Class badge, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘490020’; Medal for Bravery, 2nd type, silver, lacking enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘1501202’; Victory over Germany Medal 1941-45, mounted Russian style as worn, very fine and better (3)


£100-£140 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004.


The Order of Glory, 3rd Class, number ‘490020’ was awarded to Private Artem Evtikhievich Kolesnik, a 120mm. Mortar Loader with the 847th Mortar Rifle Kishiniv Order of Kutusov Regiment, 303rd Rifle Verkhnedneprovsk Red Banner Division, 25th Guards Rifle Corps, 7th Guards Army, 2nd Ukrainian Front. Awarded by Order dated, 15 May 1945.


A translation of his citation reads, ‘In battles for the city of Bratislava on 4 April 1945, the mortar loader Comrade Kolesnik destroyed four machine gun points with their crews, three bicycles and up to thirty Hitlerites.’


The Medal for Bravery, number ‘1501202’ was also awarded to the above. Awarded by Order dated, 6 September 1944.


A translation of his citation reads, ‘Mortarman in battery of 120mm. mortars, Private Kolesnik, Artem Evikhievich, during the breaking of the enemy’s defences as a member of the 3rd Crew of the Battery, quickly and precisely carried out his duty and as a result of this the crew destroyed two enemy strong points, a mortar battery and up to twenty German soldiers.’


Artem Evtikhievich Kolesnik was born in 1904 in the village of Studena in Vinitskaya Oblast, Pechanskii Region of Ukraine. He served in the Red Army from October 1926 to October 1928 and from March 1944 to August 1945.


Sold together with the recipient’s original awards booklet which lists the above; together with copied service and award details with translations, and other research.


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