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Let's See Some Royal Bulgarian Orders In Wear
new world replied to gjw's topic in Central & Eastern European States
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Interesting photographs of decorated people
new world replied to ilieff's topic in Central & Eastern European States
It's possible the man in the photo wears medal awarded to his deceased wife. I saw examples of people wearing awards of close relatives who passed away. - Today
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Not sure what makes you think this is obscure? Border Force and Immigration Enforcement are government uniformed law enforcement officers, yes by virtue of the UK system they are civil servants. As are Prison Officers and HM Coastguard. Most countries around the world recognise their customs and law enforcement officials and have done so for many years including Commonwealth countries such as Canada and Australia.Your attitude seems to reflect what's so wrong with the medals and honours system in the UK, you seem to think recognition of service is only deserving of the military or at a push the 'emergency services' ( more media driven nonsensical terminology). I am not even going down the celebrity, sports establishment honours. Why are they undeserving of a long service reward ? Long time overdue in my opinion, for the low paid, at times difficult and sometimes dangerous job they do. UK Border Force regularly deploy overseas and have deployed in most major conflict zones where there has been emergency evacuations of British Citizens. They have huge pressures 24/7 dealing with maritime issues in the English channel. Not an easy job dealing with desperate people in dangerous waters, that often ends in tragedy. Immigration Enforcement often work in difficult inner city areas doing a job that is challenging, whilst being vilified by sections of the media and politicians. It's not just sitting at an airport desk asking for a passport, which in itself is a job that at times leaves them subject to verbal and physical abuse. Your comments sadly show your ignorance or are intentionally disingenuous.
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Hungarian Arrow Cross medal bars
1812 Overture replied to 1812 Overture's topic in Central & Eastern European States
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New Publication on Egyptian Orders & Medals
Rusty Greaves replied to Rusty Greaves's topic in Middle East & Arab States
I'll have to check on this The price Hanafy quoted is for a bulk purchase of 4 books, all shipped to the same foreign destination. -
35 Karl Truppen Kreuz and counting. KTK.
1812 Overture replied to Farkas's topic in Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Dear Gentlemen, Here is the identification of a medal posted here: I'm not sure this medal is a "Naval Merit Medal", without a picture of the reverse to confirm it if there is an inscription. On the obverse, one can see the portait of General Bì Shùchéng of the Zhilu Coalition Army and under it the inscription which read "Gift from Bì Shùchéng". At 3 o'clock there is a panoply of weapons and at 9 o'clock half a ship. The reason I think is because he was, in the winter of 1925, successively promoted commander-in-chief of Jinan Defense, commander-in-chief of the maritime defense (commander of the Bohai Fleet), envoy of the Jiaodong Protector and commander of the Eighth Army. - this document is public domain: Yours sincerely, No one
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Dear Gentlemen, Here is the identification of a medal posted here: - "First Division Zhilu* Coalition Army". It is more likely that this is an ID badge for the division staff, not a medal. *Chihli-Shantung / Zhili -Shandong - There is another one, and it's a pass: - Here is a medal "3rd class medal": This one has the ribbon of the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure! There are no identical center pieces with the tiger. Yours sincerely, No one
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WWI ribbon bars
No one replied to No one's topic in Great Britain: Orders, Gallantry, Campaign Medals
Dear Farkas, Thank you for taking the time to explain exactly how to interpret the ribbon bars. Your work is greatly appreciated. I purchased this ribbon bar because of the combination of OBE and MM. I found it pleasing. Yours sincerely, No one PS: your message didn't show up, neither does mine -
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hucks216 replied to JohanH's topic in Germany: Third Reich: Research, Documentation & Photographs
The only way to obtain information about him, assuming he didn't win any high awards, is to request a copy of his service record from Bundesarchiv: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Artikel/Artikel-ausserhalb-der-Navigation/Hinweise-milit-Unterlagen-persbez/benutzen-hinweise-militaerische-unterlagen-persbezogen-en.html -
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Hello! I did one mistake... It´s NOT Heeresgruppe Erzherzog Joseph, but Heeresfront Erzherzog Joseph! Since Jan.5, 1917 the Eastern Front was divided in Heeresfront des "Oberbefehlshabers Ost" (Commander-in-Chief East) and the Heeresfront Erzherzog Joseph. The Heeresfront Erzherzog Joseph consisted of: K.u.k. 7th army, K.u.k. 1st army and Heeresgruppe Mackensen with german 9th army and bulgarian 3rd army. So the recipient could be a german soldier! I don´t know anything about the sticks. Maybe they teached some soldiers something and needed the stick to show something? No idea...