Chris Boonzaier

Just stumbled in this by chance.... Whats the latest state of affirs in this issue?

Pictured with Prince Charles and Camilla yesterday are: BACK ROW Barry Johnson GC – critically injured after tackling a set of mortar bombs next to a hos pital in Derry in October 1989. Michael Pratt GC – police duty, Melbourne Australia, 1976. Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC – the Australian became the association’s newest member after fighting off heavily armed insurgents in Afghanistan in 2006. Kim Hughes GC – defused seven improvised explosive devices, three with his bare hands, in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC – twice saved the lives of countless colleagues while under fire in 2004. Lance Corporal Matt Croucher GC – threw himself on an exploding grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan in 2008. Jack Bamford GC – rescued brothers from a fire at the age of 15 in 1952. Alfred Lowe GC – Royal Navy, 1948. MIDDLE ROW Bill Speakman VC – fought off enemy fire in the Korean War in 1951 by throwing stones, shoes and beer bottles. Henry Flintoff GC – rescued a farmer from a bull at the age of 13 in 1944. Jim MacDonald – representing the Royal Ulster Constabulary (GC). Awang Anak Raweng GC – Army scout, Malaya 1951. Keith Payne VC – saved the lives of soldiers under his command in Vietnam in 1969. Margaret Purves GC – rescued scout and leader from the sea at the age of 14 in South Wales in 1949. Joseph Zammit Tabona – representing Malta (GC) FRONT ROW Stuart Archer – bomb disposal, South Wales, 1940. Henry Stevens GC – police duty, Kent, 1958. James Beaton – royal protection officer who foiled attempted kidnap of Princess Anne, 1974. Captain Rambahadur Limbu VC – Gurkha, Indonesia 1965. Tony Gledhill GC – police duty, London, 1966. Major Peter Norton GC – supervised a major bomb disposal operation in Iraq in 2005 despite having suffered dreadful injuries

Veeeeeery nice toy.... have you tried firing a black powder charge from it? Would be very interesting to see on youtube!

Robins too old and I am too young ?? :-)

What can you do with these? wots a trivet?

Vry nice, is indeed German Ammo pouches.

Thanks :-( I really wish one of the photos was of Tiffay himself. Best Chris

Hi, If I had any intention of collecting japanese medals I would maybe have considered a subscription, but as I have a total sum of one japanese item, basically in my "travel collection" i.e. things I pick up on holiday and in no way conected to my collecting fields, it is hardly worth it. I am simply trying to find out what it is. JapanX, will get a pic of the box this weekend when i get home and have a moment. Best Chris

You mean the piece where I have no idea what it is, other than it is the 3rd highest of 4????? There are 5 possibilities of what i will do with this piece... I must inform you I have chosen the 2nd possibility. Best Chris

Thank you for telling me its ... "one of 4 grades of the badge you have... but I wont tell you what the badge is..." It helps me no end ;-)

I may be a bit dense but.. there are 13 badges, and 4 grades of the badge I have... but what badge DO I have? and which grade is it? This Japanese stuff ist too esoteric for me... ;-)

Hi, have to get my camera charged, I cannot scan it without damaging the hinge... watch this space...

Hi, In the spirit of forum information sharing I hope a subscriber can then identify the item for me... :speechless:

Hi, Are there different levely of the badge? The examples I found are way, way, cheaper and ugliee than this one. the box is a definate fit for the badge, unless the red cross had exactly the same format badge, I think it belongs to this. Can anyone read the writing on the box? (There is writing on the back. lower left) Best Chris

I bought this some years ago in a junk shop in Singapore. Someone mentioned it was for donations to the Japanese Ship/Fleet building (Anchor on the back). It looks to be gold plated silver. Can anyone tell me from when? Were there different grades? Any other info? Thanks Chris

Its a pretty rare name!!

Can anyone read whats on the second card>? "Recu a xxxxxxxxxx 19 Auot 19xx) Thanks Chris

An auction I was bidding on has Jacob Gustave Rothwange mentioned as having possibly served in the K.u.K. army as an officer in the early 20th century... is this a comman Austrian name? Ancestry has only ONE entry of anyone named Rothwange !!! Thanks Chris

Without being an expert on these... I dont like the pin, the hinge or the hook....

I mean all badges. I have seen German, Russian, French, South Africa, US etc. etc. ad nauseum badges where the fittings have been removed so they can be glued, soldered, sewn onto cigarette cases, wooden boards, belts etc. etc... There is no reason why this could not happen to japanese badges...

ething not clear to me here... it may be a simple ommision of the mention of the clasp... Décret du 26/09/1900 : Décret attribuant le droit à la médaille coloniale aux fonctionnaires civils et aux militaires qui ont pris part aux opérations de l'extrême-sud de l'Algérie du 25 décembre 1899 au 26 septembre 1900. Décret du 11/12/1900 : Art. 1er. — Le droit à l'obtention de la médaille coloniale avec l'agrafe « Sahara » est acquis aux militaires européens et indigènes et aux goumiers qui ont fait partie de la colonne organisée pour le soutien et le ravitaillement de la mission de MM. Foureau et Lamy et qui a opéré entre Temassinine et Tadent du mois d'octobre 1898 au mois de mars 1899 inclus. Does the first decree say the Medal will be awarded... and the second decree say a clasp will be awarded? i.e. Ops in Southern Algeria (Decree 1) gets a Colonial medal... and the decrees aftzer that talk of a colonial clasp? I assume it should be a clasp for all decrees...

It is very probable/possible that the badges ARE original... but many collectors have Veteran trophy badges where the Veteran cut the pins and backings off to glue them to a board.... makes them hard to sell, compared to an untouched original... One solution would to put them on a milk jug....

I may be wrong.... but maybe somone put the badges on the pitchers to make them more interesting before selling them? I remember reading somewhere that Milk and Milk products barely featured in Chinese/Japanese diets up until the latter half of the 20th century... So I guess Milk Jugs for the cornflakes on the Yamamoto in 1939 are a long shot....

Super, thanks, This is my favourite clasp :-) I guess there is no total of how many were awarded :-(

I have been trying to find out what the Criteria were for the Sahara clasp, as opposed to the Algeria or Morocco ones. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks Chris