Megan

Any chance of a better image? Even though I now know what I'm looking for I cannot find anything! What metal is it made of?

For those not familiar with the People's Republic of Bulgaria awards:.. Top Row: Order of Military Valour and Merit Class 1 Order of Military Valour and Merit Class 2 Medal for the Patriotic War 1944-45 Second row: Medal for Veterans of the Spanish Civil War 1939 Medal for Participation in Anti-Fascist Struggle Medal for the 30th Anniversay of Construction Troops Medal for Service in Defence of the Frontier Third Row: Combat Service Medal Medal for the Strengthening of Brotherhood of Arms Medal for Distinguished Service in Construction Troops Bottom Row: Medal for 1300th Anniversary of Bulgaria Medal for the 100th Anniversary of the April Revolt Medal for Distinguished Service in the Bulgarian Army Medal for the 30th Anniversary of Communism Medal for 100th Anniversary of Georgy Dimitrov

Thank you

Fine array you have there!

Please...

I find it offensive that any human being should be equated with Satan. Sinners we may be but not THAT bad!

Interesting. In one of your links there's reference to a senior PLAN officer being awarded a Djibouti medal. The picture merely shows a ribbon being hung round his neck and the text vague... but I think it's the commander (highest) class of the National Order of June 27 - the date refers, I believe, to the Djibouti Independence Day. No One, you've written about this Order elsewhere on GMIC and provided images of the Officer & Member classes -

Thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately, no I do not, sorry.

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

In my travels, and looking for something else entirely (often the case), I came across the Warrants for the Metropolitan/Municipal Police 10 Year and 20 Year Loyal Service Medals. Warrant for Municipal or Metropolitan Police Service Ten Year Loyal Service Medal 2008.pdfmunicipal-metropolitan-police-service-20yr-loyal-service-medal-warrant.pdf

I spend probably far too much time looking for images to fill the gaps... several dealers/auction houses have been kind enough to give me the run of their catalogues, and there are also many generous collectors who share images of medals they possess... then it is a matter of time, never enough, to get them all onto the website! Could do it fulltime, quite easily - and probably will if I ever retire!

I prefer the Order of the Bath - it has such a fascinating history, beginning in 1725 as a single-class order with the intention of providing an additional lesser award to the Order of the Garter, being expanded to 3 classes and civil and military divisions in 1815. The original insignia was retained as the civil version and a wholly-new design applied to the military division - no mere addition of a few swords here. The military division has a cross with lions between the arms and requires great care in wearing or display - the obverse and reverse are almost identical except that on the obverse you see the lions' faces and on the reverse their backsides! More than one museum has been caught out... I recall being in conversation with the director of a national museum and discovering that the display there had the poor lions displaying their rear ends (I won't mention which museum to spare their blushes, but I've never seen such a flurry as the display cases were opened and the badges flipped!). And of course this is close to my heart as my father was a Knight Commander in the Civil Division. Unfortuately his insignia was taken in a burglary, GRR. Note that the Bath, these days, is not political but more of a career award - the Civil Division being awarded to senior civil servants and the Military one to senior officers in the armed forces.

Thank you, Archie. The first one has the same obverse as described & shown on Wikipedia, but they claim the reverse (which they don't have an image of) bears the arms of the Republic of Venda. Your second example has the arms of the Republic of Venda on the obverse, and the information/date of independence on the reverse. I just love medals!!!!

Does anyone have a good image of the Venda Independence Medal?

"No specific position for wearing"... not according to the Medals Office, who told me when I enquired “In the Order of Wear, the Nuclear Test Medal shall sit after the Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service (or any other Efficiency and Long Service Decoration or Medal held) and before the Ebola Medal for Service in West Africa”.

Your friend has a good eye... some nice designs. Is MK Military Veterans an Old Comrades association? Or more governmental, like the US Veterans Administration?

Does anyone have a better image of the Independence Medal, please?

Do these medals have any official standing (i.e., State-issued) or are they veterans' bling, available for private purchase?

Poland: Historically had a "wound badge" consisting of a strip of ribbon, blue with 2 black horizontal stripes (colour of the ribbon of the Virtuti Militari) on which small silver stars were placed... this was instituted in 1920 and continued through WW2. It is worn on the left breast above other medals or medal ribbons. The current Republic spent a long time debating the issue, starting in 2007, but on 19 August 2011 instituted a similar award for military personnel wounded or injured during operations outside the country. This is a strip of ribbon, blue with 2 red horizontal stripes (the colours of the ribbon of the Order of the Military Cross). Precise regulations were left to the Minister of National Defence to determine, which was done on 15 March 2012.

Possibly Slovakian... but no idea what it was awarded for or what ribbon was used, or even if it's official. The linden leaves and double cross are typical Slovakian iconography.

Much nicer, thank you, Marco. Later, though. Husband ill in hospital, currently have not slept for 29 hours...

Found a rather small and grotty image online, will do for now.

Archie, might you have an image of the Nkwe Medal anywhere handy?

What are you looking for? I'm always poking around for warrants concerning medals, but if I know what you need I'll make sure to grab whatever may be useful and pass it on.

Dearest Archie - this will fill a few holes in my Rhodesia section.... once I have finished with South Africa, that is! Thread bookmarked for future reference.