Ulsterman

Really?? The website said "last Fall". It needs to be updated then. Is there a book on the PVC winners at all? Where did you meet him? Do you have photos? Do tell- :Cat-Scratch:

...done very bad things to me if this had happened on parade during an international ceremony. Borrowed from the Chinese Military International Cooperative Games site. Once again the Chinese dominated volleyball and India demolished all comers in TaikwanDo and track events.

Grenadier Y.S. Yadov of the 18th Grenadier Regiment received India's highest Honor last fall. He was only 18 and managed to live to tell the tale. Reading how he earned it made my hair stand on end. Congratulations Grenadier Yadov! Image courtesy of the Indian MOD website.

These young soldiers are (purportedly) part of the Indian contingent in Liberia on peacekeeping duty. The photos, culled from the Indian MOD website for academic purposes (and reedited) show these ladies all wearing badges instead of medal ribbons. But, what are they?

hee hee-now if you had the Lundstrom/Krause books....... Odd there is no SL or jubilee, but maybe not, given the specialist nature of the profession. That is a superb bar by the way. Congratulations.

Hmmmm... I shall try again....but it's about as big as I can make it; it's dark here in the grotto...and I do not own an epson:

A close up at higher resolution....from the interim 1934-35 period and too cheap to update it. He probably got booted out of the Stahlhelm/SA Reserve after the 1936/37 "coordination"/purge.

Thanks to Brian for this one: Taken on November 15, 1938.

@ 1925, made in Birmingham,silver, I reckon. Awarded for passing the first three first aid tests. See here: http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/pdf/SJAmedalEnquiry.pdf

Hmmmmm....powerful points Perhaps sabrigade can contact his Sudanese friend. Maybe there's some information/ an example at the national museum?

Apparently there was a Napoleonic commemorative table medal struck to celebrate the conquest of upper Egypt with this motif. The palm and crocodile was used on Romano-African coinage. Given the Sudanese ability to make decent metalwork I think a star or gold chain would easily have been made in Khartoum in 1837. Rummaging through old Antiques Magazines on African art there is a plethora of brass work, bangles, necklaces, leg bracelets, swords, daggers etc. etc.. all with decoration and some are enameled. Why not?

That is a GREAT photograph of this medal. Bravo!

...and yet the Prince Hall Lodges, arguably the most powerful Masonic Lodges in the world were founded on race free lines in Boston during the siege in 1775 by the British troops therein.

I found these amongst a series of Albanian tourist shots @ 1984 (obviously some Albanian immigrant who went back in 1984 to visit Grandma and her husband's grave). I believe they are Albanian @ 1945 or 1946.

The gold collar is very unFirst Empire-ish, but the period 1812-1815 uniform coat was closed like this. It saved cloth and was warmer. Perhaps even an 1816 portrait?

Probably First Empire. After 1815 the Bourbons went back to the old white uniforms for 15-20 years or so for line infantry. Old stocks were still used, esp. in the Carlist Wars interventions and in Africa. I think they went back to navy blue after the Orleans restoration.

very cool. Anyone have the regimental history ? Maybe there's a photo of him out there somewhere.

Maybe-did Assman make buttons? The Assman 'A' I thought has a line at the top of the letter. Assman apparently made medals for Iraq at some point. I have an Assman made bravery award from the mid 1980s and the quality is fantastic compared with other later 9and perhaps fake) Iraqi medals.

...and I am already budgeting for their purchases(s)! :jumping:

demir: Did Turkish troops wear this medal? British and American troops (until recently) were not allowed to wear this medal on their uniforms. I always thought that was odd, because the similar Vietnamese medal was authorized for wear in 1965 I think.

Oh I knew it wasn't a HUPR award, but the HUPR is all about 1956-before and after. Besides, we don't have a post Communist Hungarian forum and even if we did, who would post there? Years from now somebody will look here to find this useful information. So, what books are you chaps writing?

Yet his exceptional medals are those of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, he is a "Turkish" hero, just as Soviets who got a US award are "Soviet" heroes and were rhetorically hailed as such at post war award ceremonies, well lubricated with vodka and schnapps.

what rank was teh civil merit cross awarded at/for?

The crew of the Goeben I believe was seconded to the Ottoman Empire at the outbreak of war-wearing fezzes as well to signal the "change". Technically he was an Ottoman officer in 1914/15.

Whoa again!! A sabre of honnour was the equal of a VC! To Squadren Commander larrier (Oh, but what regiment?!) . Note also the "oh maybe also, instead a Cross of the Legion of Honor (officer class). VERY COOL document!!