Megan

From Thailand, originally instituted in 1887 and awarded for impeccable service to the monarch. It was awarded in 2 classes: gold and silver. Different versions for each monarch, each with a different ribbon. The red ribbon is for King Chulalongkorn's medal, but I don't read enough Thai to tell you if that is what you have.

Thank you for this... off to add it to the Egypt section, albeit only a skeleton entry until more details are known. I like keeping up-to-date!

Village bobbies are something else. I remember ours, in St Fagans outside Cardiff in South Wales. He was a keen motorcyclist and his front room was always bestrewn with bike parts and items of police uniform... he was much happier in a t-shirt than what he ought to have been wearing on duty! The station was next door to the villiage pub and the landlord always knew when it was safe to have a lock-in as he'd finish his pint and leave about 10 minutes before Time. If he stayed to drink up, the pub closed on time. Being a law-abiding brat, I only once had to deal with him officially, when I witnessed an RTC and he was tasked with getting a formal statement. I trundled round to give it, in that front room full of bike parts and odd bits of uniform and him in his t-shirt... Thank you for sharing the story of this fine giant of an officer.

Can a Zulu speaker improve on "work of extraordinary quality" for Umsebenzi Weqophelo Elingavamile, please?

Tahnk you.... I am putting together a book in parallel with the website, the intention is to make PDF versions avalable with a possible Print-on-Demand option (you will have to pay for that, but the PDF will be free). Eventually there will be a whole bunch, for different nations, but I am forcing my butterfly mind to stop flitting from one to another but to focus on one until complete... pure luck that it's South Africa!

Still plugging away, sorry about the string of rather sparse pages - these are ones for which I can only find minimal information. As my husband is ill and in hospital right now, trying to keep the flow of medals going is the one thing keeping me sane. Even my poor longsuffering students are being neglected. Tried giving a supervision this morning, it was very probably the worst one I have ever given, poor kid. They are being brilliant, offering support and good wishes and even a few prayers (Chiristian and Islamic) for him, rather than grouching.

Fantastic. Nice article, thank you for showing it to us! Congratulations.

Looks Belgian to me as well. They have (or had) a lot of societies and organisations that produce very 'real' looking awards and I think this may be one of them... it's not something awarded by the Belgian state.

Thank you so much for this... I'll go sort that out. Very much appreciated, trying to discover the details of the homelands awards is not easy. All assistance gratefully received! And especially pictures

Thank you most kindly.

So I see, thank you.

I have just put in my application to join. Only recently joined Facebook, purely for the medals - I do not do social media!

I've never seen that before...Hopefully Great Dane will be along soon, very knowledgable chap and webmaster of the Danish medals society. If he doesn't know about this, likely nobody does!

Have you asked the dealer in question?

Thank you, nabbed a copy...

Was it instituted in 1977? The Bop Police Force was established then, but the scant few references I've found indicate that their medals were instituted in 1983 - and lasted until the force was amalgamated with the SAP in 1995. Thanks for confirmation on the ribbon. Antonio Prieto Barrio has something different. One final question: does the symbol on the obverse actually mean/represent anything?

Time to blow the dust off once more... Bophuthatswana Police Star for Merit (or should that be 'Medal'?), 1983-1995. Obverse: Reverse: Is this the correct ribbon?

Nigeria gained independence from the UK on 1 October 1960 - this is probably a souvenir badge from that time.

The assorted Jubilee medals require 5 years in service, so work our the average length of a full career as a police officer and subtract 5 years... Gotta go, mid-lecture break.

Magic... may I ask where you found that, please?

And another one: Cross of the Medical Forces (Хрест Медичних сил)

Fascinating mix... ex-Navy (member of Royal Naval Association), and long service medals for Police and Cadet Forces... and now the Nuclear Test medal.

Some of those 2022 awards are now beginning to show up so I've been adding them to my website: Knight's Cross (Лицарський хрест) Cross of Valour (Хрест доблесті) Cross of the Air Force (Хрест Повітряних Сил) Cross of the Naval Forces (Хрест Військово-Морських Сил) Cross of the Special Operations Forces (Хрест Сил спеціальних операцій) More when I find them

The Medals Office finally responded to my enquiry about where this should sit. They said “The Central Chancery will confirm the order in which the Humanitarian Medal will be worn but it will not be placed before any Campaign, Operational or General Service Medals which require the recipient to be at risk from physical action from an enemy within an operational area”. That was from the Royal Warrant, but my correspondent added "So, no direction has yet been given on the order of wear for the Humanitarian Medal. No Humanitarian Medals have been awarded as yet and, following the first announcement of an award, a decision will have to be made on where it sits in the order of wear. As it is similar in nature to the Ebola Medal, it may be that it sits after that in chronological order but that will have to be confirmed."

Finally, received a rather apologetic email from the Medals Office in which they said “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”. So now we know where it is supposed to be placed.