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    Megan

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    1. Rant away, dear heart. Our uniformed services do not get as much recognition as they should.
    2. Well, no guarantees as to how 'official' this is, but I found this today (while looking for something else entirely).: Medal "For Participation in a Special Operation" (Медаль "Участнику специальной военной операции"), supposedly established 10 August 2022. The red star is a bit dodgy, so I'm not sure how legit it is. Thoughts?
    3. Do you think each of the 'blue light' emergency services should have their own medal or would it be better to have a single award for emergency service workers killed or injured in the line of duty?
    4. Perhaps a trial striking when they were deciding on the design? The official beasties all have CRUX RUBRA HUNGARICA 1922 on the reverse.
    5. I would imagine that they are given/sold to museums for display purposes, or maybe to military bases...
    6. I agree, "insignia" is a good term for what you appear to have been looking at.
    7. Possibly because they are miniatures, not full size medals. That's why I'm waiting on full-size medals for my website!
    8. Thanks, but I'm waiting for full size ones. Good to get an idea of what they will look like, though!
    9. More likely to make the beast applicable to general population, Red Cross, emergency services, NHS, and military... so whoever gets involved in a given situation, they are represented on the ribbon.
    10. Almost... George VI 1936-1952, but in 1947 the inscription was changed to remove IND:IMP: as India gained independence. Then Elizabeth II 1952-2022, but there was a minor tweak in inscription early on.
    11. Interesting. I'd heard that some people were campaigning for an award for police officers killed in the line of duty, akin to the Elizabeth Cross for armed forces personnel who die in the line of duty - but one for being injured is unprecedented in the UK. It's something we don't do, unlike many nations wo have them for at least the armed forces (e.g. USA Purple Heart) or both armed forces & police (e.g., Austria who issue a separare but similar medal to the 2 categories). Do you think it's a good idea? And should it be extended to all emergency services?
    12. On the Canadian Government (Department of National Defence) medal pages, only SIX reverses are depicted. Maybe it is left up to the provinces to decide whether or not to award the beast at all. There's also an interesting anomaly that it does not sit in the order of precedence after the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal but is stuck at the end after other proviincial awards. Ribbon's nicer - more fitting to the sequence of the Queen's other jubilee medals - than the UK Platinum Jubilee Medal, though.
    13. Yes, it goes between the Korea Medal and the General Service Medal 1962.
    14. Fascinating, Emmanuel. You say that the male head was used 1973-1976, but after 1976 it appears that they reverted to the female head. Do you agree?
    15. More great pieces! Greg, might I use the images of your Ernst Schiller medals, please?
    16. I was thinking that watching the news this morning. This is one medal I don't want to see awarded, because of the tragedies that the service for which it is to be awarded deal with.... yet these disasters will occur, and we will rally around to support those in need.
    17. Sadly, as UK firefighters have been sent to help with search & rescue in Morocco in respect of their recent earthquake, will we soon be seeing the first awards of this medal?
    18. Very nice: Medal of Merit of the Organs of the Ministry of the Interior (Verdienstmedaille der Organe des Ministeriums des Innern), Class 1 and Class 2. Instituted on 15 June 1966 and awarded in 3 classes for exemplary service in the Ministry of the Interior.
    19. Very nice. Civil Defence Medal of Merit (Verdienstmedaille der Zivilverteidigung der DDR), Class 3. Medal of Merit of the Fighting Groups of the Working Class (Verdienstmedaille der Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse) Class 1.
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