Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award Hold and Army "Action Storm" Memorial

and Army "Action Storm" Memorial Cross 1944-1945 (two-piece construction

Footnote: The Scots Guards were instumentatal during capture of Mount Tumbledown

The unit was raised on December 30

Instituted in 1863

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award Hold and Army "Action Storm" Memorial( ). Constructed of a silver with gilt and enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal aluminum backplate with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enameled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , situated above a white enameled plaque bearing a numeral 3, surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet,