paddywhack

nice bars!LOVE the 1st one though! ;)

lets just say hes not quite got a easter rising group coming up but something nearly as good!!;)

was thinking the same about the first one! though when i get it it might reveal more about it!!

the next one i got really cheap to and loved the look of it! is very well made and got a old pin and hinge on it but doesn't have much wear on it!i like quite a lot!what you guess thing? ok as well?any help would be great!!thanks!!!

picked up two ribbon bars on ebay there the other day but was thinking for the first one is it possible?iv not got it yet and not seen the back but it was cheap so i took a chance on it! just wondering is the ribbon combo possible? best i can figure is that this person served in china then South Africa then left the service and went into the civil service or something like that and got a MBE post 1936 or do you reckon its a made up?any help would be great!!!:)

great info!this what brings the medals and history!the info thats avaible now on line is pretty amazing!thanks for posting always love your posts!

true that the records mic do exist but the medal are the link to the person and his history!for instance i picked up a BWM to a merchant sea man and through that medal i saw him from his birth to his death in 43!that kinda of link would lost with the melting down of his medal!

thing is that the british war medals etc are named so the history and story of the soldier is lost!there are plenty of un-named silver medals out there and while sad that they are lost there is genarely no story to them its the history that is lost that is the shame!

is the suspenders on the BWMs silver as well?

what gets me about British collecting(iv moved over about a year now!) is that original silk ribbons are so damn hard to find!even for the common awards! yet 3rd reich or German imperial are really easy to get!half my collect has modern ribbons but just like darrell im getting over it!;)

picked up a nice BWM to a merchant marine there and im having trouble finding out any info on his service during the war!i can find him on the 1891 1901 1911 census, his marriage and his death but none of his war time service!i have his campaign medal card but thats it!!!can anyone help me!! his name is Leonard Pater!! any help would be great!!! :beer:

i saw that!what did it go for? was thinking of bidding but i didnt in the end! you see the broaching of medals more so up to ww1!iv a MM thats been broached,iv not seen any post ww1 medals broached!

would there be a possibliatly of IDing him?2 MIDs 2 orders and he was in the 8th army!has to narrow it down some what!

about the medals funny thing happened when i was looking at his service records, i thought that to save time they had put another mans service records half way down his service records but after looking really close it turns out that the man before owen had such a long service (1915 right through to 45) that thy needed to use his records as he (owen) was discharged in 21 so all his medals entries are they!!!!makes MUCH more sense and gives a much better view of his records!!!! :beer:

really?totaly missed that!il go take a look so!thanks for that!:)

how did you find out he got his medal in 1930?cant seem to find his reserve records do the national archive hold it under the fleet reserve section?dont mind even if is just a list of call ups as any paper work is great! thanks for the help with when he got his medal!:)

no problem at all!glad i can help!:)

is there a service number at all?

this your guy?

nice info and typical noor lucking out on a medal like that!!id expect nothing less!!!!!! :beer:

actualy what is the silver contain of british and candian medal??is it pretty pure or not that pure!and ulsterman that must have been sickening hearing that!!

i got his record there for his ww1 service and he was HMS Malaya at the battle jutland and he was a gunner so that was cool to find out!havent been able to find his R.F.R service though! can they be got at the national archive? your hood group sounds great!look forward to seeing it!

but if silver was to rise to say 60-100 dollars and BWMs can be got for 20 or 30 euros/sterling then i can see them being melted for there scrap value!!!it could easily happen as silver is looking like it is going higher!!!

just a thought!the price of silver is starting to shoot up and up!anyone reckon that if it goes up higher that British war medals etc might be in danger of getting melted down for there silver scrap value???!!!!i know in the late 70s that this did happen!!! be a shame if it does start to happen!!what are all your thoughts???

oops i posted in the wrong forum could a mod move it to the new long service section!thanks!