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The qsa bar could be a bar that was made before the victory medal was issued as the victory was established I believe a few months after the war medal so it could have been made up before the owner physically got the war medal and victory medal (and the 15 star was established before the war medal to) I also believe there was some debate on the final ribbon for the victory medal (IV a few ribbon bars that have the never used version of the victory ribbon and a bar that has both the official and unofficial ribbon on it ie he was double dipping)

No worries at all, if you send me a PM with an email address il email you them

Heres a link to his records Royal Navy guy from Dublin ,if you register on the site you can get the records for free

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7136160

If you can't register let me know and il download the records for you and email them to you

Ribbon available on ebay to already

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304925014771?hash=item46fef27af3%3Ag%3AwtkAAOSwxmpkVOIG&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4HmwUdSEHM5GIPcQEsqLXBWVjVEQGf3Ic3p7TmGCqfaLh4e%2BwpkA%2B6Lq2k275eRhof7dDRwxm%2BE9iPgnujj%2BeZ3gci3sCwlxdslPbTrL706juGwW3Qg1BYE3%2BfNx%2FdOP%2BjKtDq8yVmtkcX0TzFYRrRGXjb9ZiVlOoXmipBUQaM3rwAnRAaFBxp37Wk2qP4yGiff7R%2BKffZmzLMwIr2%2Fv7vkU7VUCzAIH57QrpSPiK9uX5pHloXL0Kkg8Ys04mBO4NN3%2Bl%2BbYIyTiZ7RgClXsXEZspFQixwulVXKJb5u169oi|tkp%3ABk9SR7jh_tj9YQ&LH_Auction=1

Nice;any named bars in your collection?

Great set!here's a question what did the  King(then prince) do in ww 1 to get a MID?

Here's his medal index card ,looks like he was in Gallipoli and if iv reading this right a mentioned in despatches to

Think this is some of the majors records, youl need to register with the national archives and there will probably be a charge.for the records but you might get some good info

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13294549

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13294225

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13294030

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13293942

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13294383

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13294299

As a ribbon bar collector I'd agree it's probably an Indian general service medal ribbon, so you a pic of the back?

Hi Stu

Welcome to the forum and here's a long thread from this very forum all about them! Enjoy!

https://gmic.co.uk/topic/26515-the-legion-of-frontiersmen/

Could be just the 1911 coronation medal too as they both have the same ribbon and medal is similar too

4 hours ago, graham said:

Interesting story:

 

https://www.andersonandgarland.com/auction/lot/488-the-medals-of-squadron-leader-zarski/?lot=180252&sd=1

On that groups ribbon bar there is a ww1 victory medal, how is he entitled to that if he was fighting on the side of the Germans and won a EK2nd class?

VERY nice ribbon bars, there both very unusual, I wonder if every ribbon had a glass single ribbon of it's own, iv only seen the 3 posted here and the other one I have that il hopefully find over the weekend 

7 hours ago, azyeoman said:

Thanks for adding that!  It’s a completely different company. I wonder what the “Wilts” indicates?  A surname? The regiment?  I’d guess the former, but… you never know. Thanks again for posting this! 

I'd love to know myself what it means, it would be great if it was a surname, il have a look over the weekend to see if I can find that other glass single ribbon bar 

Sorry should have added the back!! doesn't look like it was made by the same company 

Yeah you see these glass ones from time to time, iv one with the territorial ribbon (it's somewhere in the house), heres one that looks like a QSA but I think it's US, though did get it from the uk

Well if the thing you bought was attached to this button then £65 might be ok but if it was in its own yeah that's not a bargain at all!

Thanks for that, was he a captain in the end as nothing on the London gazette I can see says he was a captain (though the LG is a fickle site)

So I recently picked up locally this named British army uniform and I was wondering if anyone could help me with IDing the owner, it seems to say Captain G R WATSON but as the uniform is completely stripped(with new shiny buttons added) I don't know the regiment he was from, iv tried the London gazette and no luck, I did find a capt G R WATSON on the 1945 army list but I can't access it on forces records without a subscription and while its on fold3 it doesn't seem to to be searchable, could anyone help to see if I could get an ID on this officer?

 Now the other thing that is a bit puzzled since I got it I noticed that on the bottom 2 pockets there doesn't seem to have been any buttons at all!is this normal? again help help on this would be great

hi there

Yes there are buttons for different regiments on uniforms and then different buttons for the corps ie RAMC RE etc and if you Google British army buttons you will see all the different buttons the regiments have as there are ALOT of different ones

You would normally for a standard uniform ID the unit through its buttons or the name tag inside (this would sometimes have a unit to) if there was no collar tabs

When I zoom in on the captain's buttons they look like elephants on them, could it be the Duke of Wellington regiment (west riding regiment)

If you look in the 2nd link I provided it has all the information you require and all information on the awarding of lsgc medals in the British army 

Hi there

Here's a link to the 1st version of the long service medal from 1830

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Long_Service_and_Good_Conduct_Medal

And the newer version from 1930

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_for_Long_Service_and_Good_Conduct_(Military)

The stars from left to right there the 1939 to 45 star the Burma star then the ww2 war medal the last medal is a ww1 victory medal, is that last medal named?

The ribbon bar is the wrong way round and the only missing medal is the defence medal which is that green and ribbon on the ribbon bar