DavidS

This Medal has been a mystery - to Peterson and to myself. Has anyone any information, and/or able to translate the script on the front and reverse (see pictures)? 

Please find attached some notes I've made on this medal in the past

Ministry of Interior Medal Notes.docx

No one

I purchased this piece 5 years ago and was advised by the seller that it was “inscribed for a Staff Member of the Hanlin Academy and Court Chamberlain”.

I am not able to decipher the seal characters (篆書 - zhuànshū) and confirm the stated awardee.

I notice that you have posted a lot of information showing seal characters and wonder if you could let me know if there is software to print these characters and maybe to translate Chinese hanzi to zhuànshū.

Thank you for your help and all your interesting contributions to GMIC

now for the proficiency badges not described in Peterson's book

Shooting Badges will follow.

Army Proficiency Badges not in Peterson.pdf

Part 2.

Proficiency Badges not included in Peterson to follow.

Army Proficiency Badges Material Part 2.pdf

Army Proficiency Badges are many and varied, and there doesn't seem to be a definitive catalogue of them.

So I've started my attempts using Peterson's examples, and I'm attaching a pdf document which includes the material I've found.  A lot more to come!!

Note that I have not included Sharpshooter badges - they'll need a separate sheet. 

Army Proficiency Badges Material.pdf

The badges shown in the attached are not part of the 9 standard 1^st 2^nd and 3^rd class Technical Merit, Long Service, Good Conduct Badges but these are issued by Navy Arsenals

Miscellaneous Arsenal Badges.pdf

Thank you Nick, I have hundreds of documents but that's all for arsenals.

I do not have the lovely 30 year Kure badge or the 10 year one without enamel but I do have the 5 year badge that I'll post soon with a few other associated items.

Here's a pdf document which contains photographs and translations of all the Arsenal documents I own.  Please note that because I have no knowledge of the Japanese/Chinese languages my translations are not complete.  Help would be appreciated.

Also, I can extract text from the pdf if anyone would like the material.

I do have a few Arsenal badges which are not honorary badges.  I'll post these later.

Arsenal Honorary Badge Documents.pdf

 Kure Naval Arsenal – Long Service Certificate

伊東謙助 – Itō Kensuke

31.10.1916

Awarded by – 伊藤乙次郎 – Itō Otojirō

Award: Long Service Certificate and Sakura Badge in Silver

Date: October, 31st, 1916

勤續證//呉海軍工廠//組立工伊東謙助//右者我海軍職工トシテ拾//年以上勤續セルヲ認メ銀//色單櫻花徴章ト共二此證//狀ヲ授與ス//大正五年十月三十一日//呉海軍工廠長海軍中將,從四位,勲二等,功四級,伊藤乙次郎

Service Award//Kure Navy Arsenal//Assembler Kensuke Ito//person named on the right, Navy technician Toshite Pickup // Service for over a year Tetsuyosu // silver single cherry blossom badge//Taisho 5^th year, 10^th month, 31^st day – 31^st October 1916//Kure Navy Arsenal,  Lieutenant General of the Navy, Junior 4^th rank and holder of the 2^nd order of merit (RS or ST), and the 4^th level of bravery, Itō Otojirō

Itō Otojirō

02.12.1866 – 27.03.1941

 Kure Naval Arsenal - Certificate of Merit

伊東謙助- Itō Kensuke

20.02.1921

Awarded by - 森山慶三郎 - Moriyama Keizaburō

Award: Certificate of Merit for Naval Engineer // Date Awarded: February, 20th, 1921

General Translation: Certificate of Merit // 6th Engineering Group Engineer NAME

The above has been working on turbine wheel and axle balancing machinery for the improvement of our naval engineering works and is awarded 200 yen. (From the Kure Naval Yards)

褒状//組立工工手伊東謙助//右者[タルビン]翼車及軸車釣//合試驗器具ノ考案ヲ爲シ我//海軍工業上神益スル所不尠//依テ金貳百圓ヲ賞與ス//大正十年二月二十日//呉海軍工廠長海軍中將,從四位,勲二等,功三級,森山慶三郎

Certificate of Merit//Assembly Worker Itō Kensuke//Person named on the right [????], turbine impeller and axle balancing test equipment //invented Navy Industrial????????200 yuan reward//Taisho 10^th year, 2^nd month, 20th day – 20^th February 1921//Kure Navy Arsenal, Lieutenant General of the Navy, Junior 4^th rank and holder of the 2^nd order of merit (RS or ST), and the 3^rd level of bravery, Moriyama Keizaburō

Moriyama Keizaburō

1870-1944

伊東謙助 – Itō Kensuke

25.12.1914

Awarded by – 野間口兼雄 – Nomaguchi Kaneo

Award: Long Service Certificate

Date: December 25th, 1914

勤續證//呉海軍工廠//組立工伊東謙助//右者我海軍二職工トシテ//五年以上勤續證セルヲ誌//メ此證狀ヲ授與ス//大正三年十二月二十五日//呉海軍工廠長海軍中將,從四位,勲二等,功三級,野間口兼雄

Service Award//Kure Navy Arsenal//Assembler, Kensuke Ito//person named on the right, is a Navy staff member who has been in continuous service for more than five years//Taisho 3^rd year, 12^th month, 25^th day – 25^th December 1914//Kure Navy Arsenal , Lieutenant General of the Navy, Junior 4^th rank and holder of the 2^nd order of merit (RS or ST), and the 3^rd level of bravery Nomaguchi Kaneo

I have several Arsenal documents, and have done my best to translate these, bearing in mind I have no knowledge of the Japanese language!  Constructive comments welcome.

Here's a list of the documents, by date order.

Yep, NIck - I suspected that case was wrong

Naval Arsenal Honorary Badges

Source images and information I have used are from :-

Orders and Medals of Japan and Associated States – Weaver & Quigley – Page 95 figs 150 & 151

In the Name of the Living God – Murphy & Ackley – Pages 54 & 55 – Figs 6.24, 6.25, 6.26, 6.27, 6.28, 6.29, 6.30

Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment – Nakata – Page and Items numbers – 248-12, 248-15, 248-16, 255-19, 255-25, 263-11, 263-12, 263-15, 263-16, 263-19, 263-20

Richard Catalano’s excellent E-book  - Book 9 Navy Technical Badges

Master Index for Reference Articles written by Nick Komiya (warrelics.eu) - 6. Obscure badges. Naval Anchor lapel badges. Army Press Club badge.

Various posts in GMIC

Here’s a list of some of the Japanese source documents copied from the JACAR site;  note that some are extracted from the War Relics Forum.

C18010282100 – 0088, 0089, 0090, 0091, 0092

C18010282200 – 0150, 0151, 0152, 0153

C18010285700 – 1179, 1180, 1181, 1182

C18010304800 – 0504, 0505, 0506, 0507, 0508

C18010321300 – 0322, 0323                                - 27.09.1943

C18010330900 – 1163, 1164, 1165, 1166, 1167

C18010331100 – 1225, 1226, 1227, 1228

C18010350300 – 1592, 1593, 1594, 1995, 1596

War Relics Forum

Imperial Naval Academy Class Name Tags

Nick Komiya 18.06.2020

Navy Arsenal Technical Merit Badge

Navy Arsenal Long Service Badges

二動續譽彰

Two, Long Service Award

1^st , 2^nd and 3^rd class details same as above

Navy Arsenal Good Conduct Badge

三善行譽彰

Three, Good Conduct Award

1^st , 2^nd and 3^rd class details same as above

Award Documents to follow

Nick, looking forward to your new and (I'm sure) very informative website.  In the meantime, here are images of my Arsenal Honorary Badges and then some additional information.

The order of the above badges is the same as for the table I posted yesterday.

Referring back to the 1st post in this thread, here's a photograph of my small collection of Arsenal Honorary Awards (Technical Skill, Long Service, Good Conduct)

名誉章制式

Honorary Badge System

Here are our original photographs for this badge.

No labels etc on case, other than the stamp inside.

Tom

thanks for photographs of your 3rd class - nice & clear

Imperial Maritime Association Badges - Supporting Members above and Donations Badges below

Ooops - here's the 6th class in case.

Thanks for posting this badge, I haven't seen a photograph of it before.  Here's a composite of 3 badges from the same organisation.  Also, 4 separate shots of a 6th Class badge.  If possible, could you post some "square on" pictures of your badge - front, rear, in case and case lid?  That would be good. 

義勇艦隊建設

Volunteer Fleet Construction

六第功勞章

6th Class Merit Award

帝國海事協會

Imperial Naval Association

and the 7th Class

Volunteer ship construction memorial badge (including manufacturer's label)

Rear

義勇艦建設記念章

Volunteer ship construction memorial badge

Case

記念章

帝國海事協會

Commemorative Medal

Imperial Naval Association

Here are scans  of all my Mongolian Deputy Booklets.

A few unusual deputy badges

A B-11 - representative of the capital city (with alternative fixing)

2 unusual coloured B-15s - deputy of the province council with alternative fixing

district representative badge (not in Dr Battushig's book)

small size district representative badge

B-13, B-15, B-16, B-17  (sorry, no B-14)

now for B-11 and B-12

B-09 badges

more B-08s

sorry - format wrong.  Try these instead.