Megan

Lovely stuff!!!

1. Humanitarian Service Medal 2. Fifth Summit of the Americas Medal 3. Unknown 4. Efficiency Medal I may know what (most) of them are, but I would appreciate further details about terms of award.

More beautiful images - and wonderful to hear from you again, James.

Thank you for the additional information, James

That certainly wasn't the image I posted! I'll hunt up the originals and repost them when I'm at home. In the meantime, see them at http://medals.org.uk/ivory-coast/ivory-coast-text.htm (time I did some more on that section...)

It was awarded to members of the Armed Forces and Police who were in service on 15 September 1963.

Nice

Nice - so they probably do get to wear them along with regular medals It's graduation week at the university where I now work, and I'm helping with the ceremonies, but after that I'd maybe better take another look at the Russian section of my site. Haven't been there for a while and you good folks keep finding more & more medals!

Thanks, Ilya

Nice! Very find pictures, Ilya. Where did you find them?

Thanks, Emmanuel!

Do you want it reviewing? Megan http://www.medals.org.uk/

Very nice - thank you for sharing! Megan http://www.medals.org.uk/

ANOTHER 'going on parade' medal?

Oh dear... time I did more Russian medals!!!

I've just started a Schleswig-Holstein section on my site: http://www.medals.org.uk/schleswig-holstein/schleswig-holstein-text.htm This is all I have found online as yet: http://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/c/deutsche-staaten/schleswig-und-holstein-herzogtum

That's a beauty!

Er - the Order of the Oaken Crown ribbon is yellow with 3 green stripes, with the stripes being narrower than the yellow areas between them. The ribbon for this medal is asymmetric, with equal widths of yellow and green but with yellow at one edge and green at t'other.

Replacing the blue shirt and darker blue trousers of Action Working Dress (No.4s) is a very dark blue rig. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31950420

The Order of Social Merit (Ordre du Mérite Social) was instituted on 25 October 1936 to award meritorious service within institutions and the like concerned with social legislation. It was administed by the Ministry of Labour. Like many other such orders, it was discontinued when the National Order of Merit was established on 1 January 1964. It was awarded in three classes: Commander, Officer and Knight. The badge of the order is a 7-pointed star enamelled in blue, the metal being gold for commanders and officers and silver for knights. The central medallion bears on the obverse the symbolic female head of 'The Republic' with 'Mérite Social' around it, and on the reverse 'Ministére du Travail' (Ministry of Labour). The ribbon is red with blue edges. Commander: ' alt='' class='ipsImage' width="487px" height="750px">"> Officer: Knight: ' alt='' class='ipsImage' width="487px" height="750px"> ' alt='' class='ipsImage' > ' alt='' class='ipsImage' > ' alt='' class='ipsImage' > ' alt='' class='ipsImage' >

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A Humanitarian Service Medal would be a neat idea. You could always have clasps for particular incidents if you wanted to show just what an individual helped with.

It's a good survey of modern medals, Antonio. You are welcome to any illustrations from my site, of course.

I find the ones about police, paramedics, border controls, airports, etc., fascinating - give some insight into various jobs that are pretty much a closed book to those not engaged in them yet with which we all interact occasionally. Real people doing what can be at times quite difficult jobs - anything that helps the rest of understand is all to the good. It makes the people involved less faceless.

Dearly beloved is very fond of this sort of show so I get to see quite a lot of them! The one I like best is called Emergency Bikers and deals with police and paramedic motorcyclists. On the whole, they present police in a positive light and makes them a bit more human - they are not faceless 'plods' but real people just like the rest of us.