Nick

Cheers Stan for adding those photos some great shots of some rare pieces.

The tinnie on the picture above looks like the 1929 Nurnberg Rally Tinnie ?:

It has got a few pages on the Colonial Awards. It is not a bad book considering there is so little out there. But potentially it could have been so much better. Lets hope for a new edition.

Not sure on any publications that spring to mind, but thats what the forum is for to fill some gaps, so lets see if we can help !

Gold/Orange Honour type pin

My pin back

Here is mine

Great photo's John of your long service bars. I am always envious of your photographic skills !

Where can you order the book?

Here:

http://www.winidorepress.com/

Leigh Kitchen has taken up the mantle of Forum Host for the British Militaria Section. I give him a warm welcome and hope you all support him in his new role !

It is clearly visible that the cross is a Juncker!

Obvious to you, but not to me, as I don't collect these items.

Cheers

Nick

Although it does look like a Rounder

It is an enhanced photo from a wartime publication.

Can anyone identify the manufacturer of this RK. Sorry for the poor picture ?

Thanks

I'll take your word on the flash, the photo's just made the second and third badge (pin only) look to be made of modern construction.

Have a look at this thread for the first tinnie:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5051&st=980

The construction of the second badge looks postwar to me. The last one is certainly for Danzig and again the pin itself looks modern ??

Cheers Chris

Nice family history and interesting photos of a bygone age. If my memory serves me correctly I have seen police photos with similar badges on uniforms and I think they may be for a first aid qualifications.

I think we have done the Dr Hansen topic to death. I am not interested in the minutia of the why, when and where falls of Dr Hansen and his fall from WAF grace. Stogieman has explained the reasoning behind his dismissal from GMIC and that is the end of story. As for his dissertation, this was linked to GMIC from MCF back in February 2006 (the link is now dead at the MCF end) so there was no attempt to hide any facts here and I was happy that his findings were made available on GMIC.

I do feel that things are starting to go round and round in circles and we need to draw a line under the Rounder debate with the fact that at least we all agree that it is Fake so lets move on to something new.

No doubt an original plate, but the provenance is a little too weak for me. There is of course a likelihood it was worn at Waterloo, but much like today the Victorian era had more than its fair share of forgers and embellishers who liked to dress up a piece to make it more desirable.

Originally the Colonial Police Long Service Medal was only awarded to junior ranks, (although it now covers all ranks) also not knowing the full career of the man was he military before the police so he may not have served the requisite years ?

We are an international forum and we must remember that we are here to discuss militaria and military history without getting tied down with the baggage of personal beliefs, morals, politics and national loyalties. I accept that at times this can be hard to accomplish and passions can run high especially with members who have served in their own countries military as well as various conflicts around the world since WW2. I respect that many members are proud of their service and have patriotic feelings of loyalty to their own country and beliefs. But your own individual national pride may not be shared by other members and we must be respectful towards those members by not carrying and flying our flags blatantly in their faces.

Depending on sensitivities, you can get yourself punished or spanked or even banished from a forum (this has happened to me twice, a result of talking the unacceptably radical position that there is no rate of exchance on human life, based on nationalality or race).

I can assure members that such humanitarian beliefs will not lead to banishment on GMIC. I run this forum to a set of guidelines which are based on common sense, decency and are founded on the principles of western democracy and British Law. I like most (but I accept, not all) of you have a patriotic loyalty to my country of birth, but I am hopefully educated enough to recognise some of the dangers of nationalism and when posting on GMIC view things objectively like all military historians should. I would ask you all to do the same and we will hopefully continue to have some enlightening and interesting discussions in the future.

Doc

I though long and hard about this posting. I agree Mr Zulus has been crass and offensive with his remarks and he has received an official warning with regards his conduct. I thought I had deleted the offensive remarks but one escaped. It aslo has not escaped my notice what the motivation for the topic was and in all probability the sole purpose was to cause offence.

I decided to leave the topic in question because I felt the topic itself was of value and interest. If the topic does not get back on coursec or is further clouded by political motivation I will simply delete it.

After some thought I have decided to let this post remain, but I have removed some of the inappropriate and inflammatory remarks/smilies which I am sure were intended to make a political point and no doubt will have caused offence to some of our US members.

It is an interesting topic and one that merits discussion but for it to continue please stick to facts not anti american rhetoric.

Jaybo

Is it the criteria for the awards you are looking for ?

Nick

Those Spanish ribbons do add a bit of colour to those bars. Cheers Fran?ois

Dietrich

You may have a point there I am in the dark about RKs I may well have confused the two issues as being one. I am aware of the die flaw topic maybe we should expand this topic to include that as well. I will change the topic title to reflect that. It seems that you are right about the rounder thread I think the posts reflect an agreement on that issue.