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Here we have the following award: QwaQwa Police Medal for Faithful Service 500 of these medals were ordered in July 1993 as well as 500 for the Medal for Merit

The previous award was gold and this is the silver award

Original 32 Battalion Recce Group cloth wing Only 120 were made Its easy to ID fakes

Another SAPS STF plaque

Selous Scouts plaque

Here we have the following award: QwaQwa Police Medal for Merit

Current awards for 4 Special Forces Brigade Operators and support members

The silver coin

Plaque awarded to Operators of the SAP STF

Here we have the following award: QwaQwa Police Foundation Medal QwaQwa Official Gazette, Vol. 12, No. 34 of 1 October 1985 No records about the amount manufactured, but it was awarded to 16 members of South African Police, including W/O (F) T Diedericks, the designer

Coin received after training with Israelis

Another Commemorative Coin for Koevoet

UNITA rank insignia

Operators Creed

Book about the SAP Special Taskforce by a former Operator and friend of mine

Arnold von Bolko is not in our list, but is it a Royal HOH? SPZ, 27.2.1923

Yet another 1870 EK1, was offered to me for $625, someone bought it. They rain down on eBay! Who knew!

Hello! To up the topic. Remnants of the shoulder strap of an officer of His Majesty's Retinue

Two guys, one thought... Yes, the missing edgings... but the inner circle looks like the Bene Merenti. Difficult to see...

Hello Bernd! Yes, you´re right! He was just mentioned as Lt. So the sender probably was wrong... Here is the list of the officers, deputy-officers and NCOs, taken by the regimental history.

It doesn't look like Bene Merenti, doesn't have the black edgings, it's an entire white cross with an enamel around the central medallion, maybe it's from some veteran organization?

Hello! Ah, ok. My fault. I thought the ribbon belonged to the cross... But a closer look proofed, that I was wrong. The ribbon really looks like the Prinz Alfons! The cross could be the Bene Merenti, but I don´t see the black edgings of the cross-arms, but that can be an optical illusion. Unfortunately I couldn´t find any infos about awards he received after 1918.

Dear Gentlemen, Presentation of the insignia of the Joint Staff of the French Forces stationed in Djibouti*, homologation G 3150 1984. * Etat-Major Interarmées des Forces Françaises stationnées à Djibouti (FFDJ) From 1984 to around 2010 the "s" of Interarmées was missing, and nobody seems to have noticed it. Only in 2011 did the spelling error get corrected. - Etat-Major Interarmées des FFDJ Bessin & Salson: - Etat-Major Interarmées des FFDJ Y.Delsart 89100 Sens: - Etat-Major Interarmées des FFDJ Drago Paris: - Etat-Major Interarmées des FFDJ Drago Paris golden: - Etat-Major Interarmées des FFDJ Drago Noisiel Marne la Vallée: - Etat-Major Interarmées des FFDJ Bessin & Salson, with corrected spelling, but the colors of the boat hull are missing: The 'perfect' insignia was finally produced by Boussemart in 2011: Yours sincerely, No one

Possibly Herbert Behrenz, *27.1.1888 in Gut Dumpen bei Memel, who was a Leutnant in FR 33, served with the Fliegertruppe from 1913 onwards, and was a Luftwaffe Oberstleutnant.