Megan

Venda Defence Force Medal

I reached the Military Merit Medal on my site last night. May I ask if there was any change in insignia when the name was changed from the Chief of the SADF Commendation Medal in 1993?

Look for the other threads on Lebowa medals, maybe the answer will be found there...

Very nice, espeically as I reached the ZwaZulu Corrections Medal of Meirt this afternoon! So I have a ribbon to put up at least.

Nice... Good to see the different reverses.

Just trying to catch up on what you have posted on GMIC and adding notes to the log file of image sources for the website - there's a big chart for each section/nation so I can track the source of everything used and acknowledge appropriately. Then there's another Word document for each nation which has every detail I can find for each award and the high quality images. That's the one that will become a PDF eventually and be made available to anyone who wants it.

A fine array indeed, Archie - and nice to see your face, too! Love the t-shirt!

Is the South African Railway Police Cross for Valour on the correct ribbon? According to Stanley Monick's book on Awards of the South African Uniformed Public Services 1922-1987, it ought to be plain old gold. The bronze-green ribbon with old gold edges belongs to the SARP Star for Distinguished Service.

Thread bookmarked in anticipation...

Thank you, Archie, you are very kind. And it's now Friday, I've finally managed to clear down my work emails, and intend to play with medals all weekend. Marking can wait until Monday!

I have seen your images of the Order of Indwe Archie, and realised the error of my ways, but thank you, Chris, for pointing it out. I'd rather hear about something I've spotted than miss something that needs doing! However I'm an academic and it's peak assessment time, I am buried under emails from distraught students and piles of marking. Not eveni managing to keep up on here and barely meeting my 'medal a night' target. Roll on the weekend...

Nice... tagged for later 🤓

Splendid stuff. Lebowa seems to have liked those scalloped edges... 🤓 By the way that kind of semi-circular indentation separated by points is called 'engrailled' in heraldry. Off to scribble some more notes....

Thank you. I can work with that...

Fascinating... making notes furiously. Seems I have managed to get a bit confused between the Order for Distinguished Leadership and the Medal for Distinguished Service - and ended up with the ribbon for the latter described as the ribbon for the former on my website! Now to sort it out! Archie, the ribbon for the Order for Distinguished Leadership, is that gold with a medium blue edged dark blue central stripe?

Did EVERYTHING from Transkei come in 2 types - 1976-1987 and 1988-1994? Even more stuff to try and track donn. Did they issue any documentation about their awards, regulations, that sort of thing? Marcon1 - would you be so kind as to permit me to use your images, and if so what is your name for the acknowledgements (PM if you prefer)?

Very nice, thank you so much!

Brilliant stuff... scribbling notes furiously...

Anyone got decent size images they would be prepared to share? Rookie's pictures are great for identification purposes but too small to be useful.

Your man-cave looks fantastic! I collect information and images rather than things, but it all occupues quite a lot of storage. This dates back to a childhood fascination with medals and 1) having picked up one medal which neither the vendor nor the local museum could identify, the quest to find out what it was led to 2) the discovery that a book with information/images of lots of medals cost less than a single actual medal! Anyway I'd bought most all that I could find that I could afford on pocket money anyway. In later years this new-fangled World Wide Web thing came along. Already in the computing trade by then, I found HTML (the basic code that websites are written with) is a very space-efficient way of storing images and information at a time when hard drives cost an arm and a leg! So Medals of the World was born...

Magic, thank you. I'm always looking for decrees and such.

So many beautiful images... I may have died & gone to heaven 🤓

Amazeballs...

Thanks... my italian is going to get a workout shortly! Cannot justify cost/storage space for the dead tree version, or even handle it comfortably. these days, alas.

Thanks.... bit hard to see at a distance especially as Charlie flew in the face of tradition and is looking the 'wrong' way. More medals to hunt down a Charles III version of....