Krigstrom

Hello. I would guess it´s a brosch for a medical worker, a "sjuksköterska" in swedish (and Krankenschwester in deutch). It´s called Sjuksköterskebrosch in swedish and is something you get as a sign of having done your education and you should be wearing it at your work clothes. Here you have a picture for one being worn in Skåne (another part of Sweden) with the heraldic sign of Skåne on. And here you have som others. They exist in hundreds of variants over the years and places.

I have found this medal on a site and they claim that it is a genuine "Visit of Prince of Wales to Bombay medal", but I have a really hard time beliving that. I know that Prince Edward was visiting Bombay in 1921 and a medal was giving out to commemorate this event but NO WAY a british medal could be this ugly? It looks like the "Chinese civil war-medals" that have flooded the market in the latest years, if you look at the writing on the back it have som similaritys to this. Is this a realy crude medal being giving to whoever wanted it, a really damaged medal or a fake? I am very sorry for my english, it works in spoken language but not in writen.

Thanks you Christophe for the nice answer!

Does anyone know the story about this medal? It it described as "Russia 65 year defense of Moscow 1941-2006". Is it some kind of local veteran medal from moscow or some kind of pre-soviet communist medal or even a medal from the Russian federation? I have bin looking all over the internet for hours but have come up with nothing... Thanks!

This is a part of history that I love, a lot of people didn?t care for there medals at all and this man made his own, wonderful. I love when people change there groups so a sport medal ore something comes before his military medal, maybe becous he felt more like a sports man then a former military man. And if your father felt he was entitled to another star I don?t think you should corect him, then you would fake his medal. To honour his memory you should keep them as they were. Sorry for my english, but I hope you understand me.