Megan

Thank you for the additional information...

That's a fun one, thank you for sharing!

Ooooh...nice!

The oak leaves and acorns on the suspension suggest an Army award,

Whenever convenient - enjoy your trip.

Do you have anuy images of the Ciskei Prisons Service Medal for Faithful Service -gold, silver, and bronze? Drawing a bit of a blank at the moment.

As a Welsh speaker, this is correct. The bit about Cwnstabl turning into Gwnstabl is technically called 'mutation', it's supposed to make a sentence flow more smoothly. There are rules about mutations but I don't actually know them, it's just natural to me! Like many borrowed words in Welsh, although Cwnstabl looks odd to an English speaker, it is pronouced the same as "Constable". Throughout the pandemic, one of the high spots was that the Welsh for coronavirus was.... coronafeirws! Which, of course, is just a translation of coronavirus into Welsh phonetics. That's what we do with borrowed words, and is why they sound the same although they look very different! 'Prif' always comes before the word that is being referred to as the 'Chief' or 'Highest' - for example, a university is a prifysgol (ysgol means school).

A fine array - thank you for sharing. Interesting that there are some bars with a mix of nations' awards - Baden, Denmark, Italy, German Red Cross; or Sweden and Denmark.; or the miniatures from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, and Austro-Hungary... do you know anything about the recipients?

Nice array... your collection is pretty impressive!

Ooojh, goodie.

Excellent... look forward to that. Will be backfilling the South African section as time permits.

Fantastic arrays, both of you. Thank you for sharing them.

Quite an array!!! Nice,.

So, non-communist medals have a place in your heart, too. Nice stuff.

Looking for images of Bophuthatswana Prisons Service Faithful Service Medal...

D'Oh.... have got a copy of that somewhere 🤓

Nice beasties. Have you got a full set yet or are you still working on it?

Search and ye shall find... Gazankulu Police Star of Merit: Like Marco's earlier in this thread, the recipient's details have been engraved around the edge of the reverse.

You know me, of course I'd like bigger better images... but at least I know what I am searching for!

More nice goodies, your mail carrier is a gem! Has your flying hours medal lost its little aircraft from under the 350 hours scroll?

Reserve Long Service Decoration (Landwehr Dienstauszeichnungen), common to to Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Saxe-Meiningen. Instituted in 1913 and awarded in 2 classes, the first class for 20 years. This one is the second class in gilted bronze, should be 25mm in diameter. Ribbon is plain green.

Biography is well outside my area of interest, but my Google-fu has found: Konteradmiral Werner Ehrhardt - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Ehrhardt_(Admiral) Flottillenadmiral Rolf Johannesson - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Johannesson Flottillenadmiral Hans Karl Meyer - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Karl_Meyer (no photo but his English Wikipedia page has one!) Konteradmiral Bernhard Rogge - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Rogge_(Marineoffizier) Vizeadmiral Friedrich Ruge - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ruge Konteradmiral Gerhard Wagner - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Wagner_(Admiral) Hope that gives you at least a flaour of what you are after.

Nice work, Ilya. Where did you find those?

Fantastic.... where next - Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania... there's more Warsaw Pact countries out there 🤓

That's coming along nicely, some good stuff there. Do you intend to complete the "flying hours" set and maybe add the "parachute jumps" series as well?