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  Royal Navy Admiral Full Dress, Model 1924-39, Attempt to Attribute Uniform....HELP REQUESTED

  By diwe · Posted 1 hour ago

  A few weeks ago I acquired a full dress uniform for an admiral of the Royal Navy at an auction in France. Based on the embroidery on the collar this is the model worn between 1924-1939. Evidently the epaulettes were added later and not of flag rank (starting with the buttons) I am trying to potentially identify the owner. One clue might be the number of breast stars. The way the loops are attached to the fabric is high quality and seems authentic. The loops for one breast star slmost align with the row of buttons…maybe that is a clue. I identified the following flag officers that held the rank between 1924-1939 and were on active list and might have worn this uniform. Of course, it could have also been an admiral who had retired which would make the list indefinitely longer. I noticed that a lot of flag officers who were promoted (full) admiral after 1924 continued to wear their full dress coat with the 1883 collar embroidery pattern. Does anyone have any other good ideas for a shortlist of candidates?  Needless to say there was no tailor label. Thanks so much! •  Sir Lionel George Preston - Active until retirement in 1935 •  Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh - Retired in 1936 •  Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound - First Sea Lord from 1939; promoted Admiral of the Fleet the same year •  Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little - Active until 1945  •  Sir William Milbourne James - Promoted before World War II •  Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt - Promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1934 •  Sir Michael Henry Hodges - Served until retirement in 1932 •  Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield - Served as First Sea Lord (1933–1938) •  Sir John Donald Kelly - Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1936  
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  Interesting photographs of decorated people

  By Graf · Posted 1 hour ago

  Very nice
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  Need Info's about this order of the red star

  By walle · Posted 1 hour ago

  missunderstanding, it definatly was not awarded to my grandfather because he was a soldier in the german army, but it could be a war trophy or something like this.   regards Walle
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  asian badges

  By No one · Posted 5 hours ago

  Dear Gentlemen,       Yours sincerely, No one
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  Egypt Khedivate Judge's Badge question

  By Rusty Greaves · Posted 7 hours ago

  I have finally located a photo of one of the American Judges on the Mixed Courts with one of the most interesting names in U.S. politics, Somerville Pinkney Tuck (24 Sept, 1848-14 April, 1923), along with his flamboyant mustaches, wearing his judicial regalia. The above undated photo comes from an Ancestry.com contribution by his descendants (https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/90902621/person/75019188623/media/9e740009-065b-4782-a2b2-0750268cf3e5?galleryindex=2&sort=-created). Somerville Pinkney Tuck was nominated by U.S. President Grover Cleveland to the Mixed Courts and named to the District Court of Mansourah on 6 May, 1894. He was transferred to the District Court in Cairo on 2 December, 1897. The Khedive (Abbas Hilmi II) made him a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, 28-30 September, 1904. He was promoted to Conseiller (Legal Advisor) to the Appeals Court on 9 November, 1908. While still serving on the Appeals Court, h was was made a Member of the International Commission who planned reforms to the Mixed Courts for the anticipated end of Capitulations. On November 11, 1911, Tuck was assigned to the Legislative Assembly created by Khedivial decree within the Mixed Courts to resolve issues that Lord Cromer's proposed reforms failed to effect in the wake of his retirement. Tuck retired from the Courts on 31 October, 1920 after reaching the mandatory retirement age for the Appeals Court (he was 72). Jasper Yeates Brinton (1930, The Mixed Courts of Egypt, Yale University Press, New Haven, pg. 86) states that the retirement age for judges in the Appeals Court was 70 and 65 for judges on the District Courts. In this above image of Tuck's Olympic-class slouching capability, he wears the black stambouline coat, maroon tarboosh, and red sash (of the District Courts). His badge in this photo would have been the gold and silver version of the District Courts' judges. The medals he is wearing on his stambouline are, from the center of his chest running L-R in the viewer's perspective: the Insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati; the 4th Class Officer of the French Legion of Honor (awarded in 1889) and the 2nd Class Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms. This photo must have been taken between the 1889 award to Tuck of the 4th Class Legion of Honor and the 1900 award of the 3rd Class Commander of the Legion of Honor. The 50th anniversary volume about the Mixed Courts (Les Juridictions Mixtes d'Égypte 1876-1926 Livre d'or Édité sous le Patronage du Conseil de l’Ordre des Avocats á l’Occasion du Cinquantenaire des Tribunaux de la Réforme) state he was awarded the 2nd Class Grand Officer of the Order of the Nile (Appendix 1, pg IV). His grave cover in the Menton Castle Cemetery in France (the Cimetière du Vieux Chateau, Menton, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) only lists his honors as a "Member of the Society of the Cincinnati" and Comandeur de la Legion d'Honneur.      Above is an example of one of the variants of the Insignia of The Society of the Cincinnati, from a Find a Grave listing for Dr. Thomas Earle Van Metre Jr. (1936-1996) buried in Rhode Island (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153080846/thomas-earle-van_metre). The Society of the Cincinnati is the oldest patriotic organization in the United States, founded on 13 May, 1783 by officers of the Continental Army who had served in the Revolutionary War. (https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org). Also see the GMIC thread "Insignia of the society of the Cincinnati", started by g_deploige on 31 January, 2007 in the "United States of America" section under the "Rest of the World: Medals & Militaria" heading. There are several variants of the medals' designs through time. Additional images and descriptions of this award are available on The Society of the Cincinnati website: https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/discover-the-collections/society-of-the-cincinnati-eagles/; https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/the-society-of-the-cincinnati-eagle/; and at https://americanrevolutioninstitute.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/711D7192-BBDC-4CF6-98EA-845427852144.      Above is the most well-know and commonly reproduced image of Judge Somerville Pinkney Tuck. It comes from: Harrison, Thomas Skelton, 1917. The Homely Diary of a Diplomat in the East, 1897-1899. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. This portrait is between pp. 44 and 45. It also is archived on Wikimedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Judge+Somerville+Pinkney+Tuck+(1848-1923)&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image) and Picryl (https://picryl.com/media/judge-somerville-pinkney-tuck-1848-1923-d6ebce). Tuck was considered an important and well-respected lawyer and jurist in his day.