Antonio Prieto

The grand cross only for generals The rest the Cross

I can confirm both are from Honduras. The first, the Distinguished Service Medal

A new update for my page http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/indexeng.htm Enjoy!!

Please see: http://www.policia.gob.ni/acerca_de_nos_logros_grados2.html

Only a note. The royal crown appears since 1951 with the rules of this year 1814-1931: Royal crown: 1931-1939: Mural crown (republic) 1939-1951: Imperial crown (open royal crown) 1971-to date: Royal crown

Please see http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/rmosh.htm Rules: http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medall...to/regrmosh.pdf Historic: http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/osh.pdf Yes, some spanish items have the makers of "Jos? Pereda, La Habana" Regards

The medal is good but the ball through which it passes the ring, seems that it is returned to weld to the medal, perhaps by some previous breakage

This is a electronic translation of my archive of spanish medals Propagandistic medal of Social Aid of the Feminine Section References. Calv? n? 285; Guerra n? 886 Call of 11 of May of 1939 (BOE of the 12). In order to award a sketch of commemorative medal of the Day of the Glorious National Rise. Fisrt.-Se opens an call to award to the best sketch of commemorative medal of the day of the Glorious Rise and that will be used day 18 of July of the present year. Second.-The obverse of the medal will show an allegory of the date that is commemorated. Reverse of the medal free initiative of the offerer has left. Third.-Se will give to the author of the best sketch a prize in metalist by value of ten thousand pesetas (10000 pesetas). The prize will be able to be divided in two of five thousands (5000 pesetas) in the case of being awarded an obverse and reverse of medal made by different authors. Fourth.-The call will be failed by a jury who opportunely will designate itself. Fifth.-Which they aspire to the prize will have to present their works in the offices of the National Service of Propagand, in Burgos, before the twelve at night of the day first of next June. Sixth.-The rights of reproduction and awarded operation of the work or works will happen to the State. Call of 22 of May of 1939 (Gazette number 143, of the 23). For the construction, distribution and sale of the Commemorative Medal of the Rise. By the National Service of Propaganda the construction removes to public aid, distribution and sale of the commemorative medal of the 18 of 1936 July, date of the Glorious Rise, in accordance with the following bases: First.-The construction of the medals will have to adjust to the sketch that is awarded in the aid opened to the effect by this Service and announced in the Government reporter of the State of date 12 of the currents. This sketch will be given to the awardee of the present aid before day 12 of next June. Second.-Will construct at least two series of medals: one in silver and another one in material of reduced cost more. Third.-La construction, distribution and sale of the medals will not be able to be adjudged separately, reason why the proposals will have to jointly include the three indicated operations. Fourth.-The medals will have to be puttings on sale to the public day 18 of 1939 July. Villa the offerers will accompany to their proposals a medal already made, according to a design anyone, that will serve as sample. The awardee commits itself to that those that make they are not of inferior quality to this model. Sixth. - The proposals will include the following ends: a) Number of medals of each series that the offerer commits itself to construct and to distribute. b) Class of material to use in its construction. c) Sale price in each series. d) Percentage to perceive by the offerer, globally by construction, distribution and sale. Seventh.-Of each series it will be given, gratuitously, to the National Service of Propaganda, at least, 1% of the made medals. Eitgh.-The proposals, directed to the Head of the National Service of Propaganda, will have to appear in sheet closed in the General Secretariat of this Service in Towns (Palace of the Hearing), before the 14 hours of day 2 of next June. To each proposal it will be accompanied in addition to the sample to that the base talks about fifth, the defense acreditativo of to have made a temporary depot of five thousand pesetas to disposition of the Headquarters of the Service, or in the General Box of Deposits or its branches; well in the Box of the General Administration of the National Services of Press and Propaganda. Nineth.-The aid will be failed in the form anticipated for the concessions that suppose exclusive right of operation in the order of the Ministry of the Interior of 27 of last April, on control of emblems, standards, et cetera.... Propagandistic medal instituted by Social Aid to collect bottoms for the maintenance of the dining rooms in Civil War 1936-1939 and after her. It exists in three categories, gold (rarest), silver (rare) and bronze (it frequents). It is of bronze, of 33 millimeters of suspended diameter and of a golden metal pin, that in its interior takes a tape with the national flags. She was granted to that they contributed with some money to the support of this work of the Feminine Spanish phalange Section. She was well-known like Medal of the "Rise and Victory". Also please see http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medall...xto/falange.htm Regards

El Bicentenario de la Guerra de la Independencia, portada de la REDEl primer acto conmemorativo del bicentenario de la Guerra de la Independencia presidido por los Pr?ncipes de Asturias en Madrid es uno de los contenidos destacados del ?ltimo n?mero de la Revista Espa?ola de Defensa. Una cr?nica detalla el desarrollo de la ceremonia organizada por el Ministerio de Defensa y en la que participaron junto a Espa?a, representaciones de Francia, Polonia, Portugal y Reino Unido. http://www.mde.es/revista/08_238.pdf The Bicentennial of the War of Independence, cover of the REVISTA ESPA?OLA DE DEFENSA The first commemorative act of the bicentennial of the War of the Independence presided over by Princes de Asturias in Madrid is one of the outstanding contents of the last number of the Spanish Magazine of Defense. A chronicle details the development of the ceremony organized by the Ministry of Defense and in which they participated next to Spain, representations of France, Poland, Portugal and United Kingdom.

Thank you for the answer Ed Some others of the National Day Celebration at Madrid 12.10.2007

Dear Sirs I need information about the indian name (turban?) and criteria or comments of the headgear of the indian troops Thank you Photo # 168633 UN Photo/Marie Frechon UN Messenger for Peace Visits MONUC George Clooney, a newly appointed United Nations Messenger for Peace, greets members of the Indian Battalion of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) during his tour of UN Peacekeeping Mission in Africa. High-resolution image (Please right-click and choose Save As)

http://www.secc.es/ficha_conmemoraciones.c...d25741d4e2446d4 More topics for this celebration

The Princes de Asturias, have presided yesterday (12.02.2008) the institutional act of commemoration del Bicentennial of the Peninsular War, organized by the Ministry of Defense, that has been celebrated in the Bail?n street, in front al Royal Palace. The commemorative act they have attended, next to the Spanish Minister of Defense, Jose Antonio Alonso, the holders of Defense of Poland and Portugal, Bogdan Klich and Nuno Severiano Teixeira; the Minister of Veterans of United Kingdom, Derek Twigg; and the Secretary of State of Defense of France, Alain Marleix. Please see: http://www.munimadrid.es/portal/site/munim...ofichero=imagen and also http://www.mde.es/NotasPrensa?id_nodo=4072...mp;id_nota=1601

Yes. Please see http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medall...maestranzas.htm Real Maestranza de Caballeria de Ronda or Royal Brotherwood of Cavalry of Ronda Also http://www.rmcr.org/turistico/en/

Hello I need good pics with berets of the missions of the WEU, EUPM, OSCE and other international or multinational assignments (not UN). If possible with the credits or source for use in a private work Thanks

For Tajikistan:, please see: http://znaki-uniforma.narod.ru/index/tajik.../nagraditaj.htm Also mi ribbon sheet at: www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/asia/tadjikistan.gif

This is the Order of the Liberation of Spain Created in Paris in September 3, 1947 for the Spanish Government of the Republic in the exile to reward the Spaniards and foreigners that surrendered important services to the republican cause It was granted in three classes: plaque, cross with rossette and cross. Also exist a medal of merit. The ribbon takes the colors of the flag of the Republic (red, yellow and purple). The insignias were carried out by Arthus-Bertand of Paris.

Please see http://www.elmanifiesto.com/articulos.asp?idarticulo=1130 This is a electronic translation He was general Esteban, the last one Honored The Laureate Cross of San Fernando is the Highest Spanish military decoration. It was created by Cortes of Cadiz in 1811. The last honored horseman alive was the general lieutenant Adolfo Esteban Ascensi?n, that finishes passing away in the most complete forgetfulness on the part of mass media and official instances. The minister of Defense was not in the burial. Either no institutional representation of the State. All the countries honor their heroes, independently of the political circumstances in that they were decorated. Normally it is considered that it compensates form leaves from the cultural and political heap of a nation. Spain, reason why sees itself, is different. By Diego de Arcaya The general lieutenant Adolfo Esteban Ascensi?n was buried days ago Christian in an intimate and familiar act in the cemetery of Santo Angel of Guarda de Segovia, which they attended a good number of friends and companions and where they were made notice some clamorous absences, beginning by the one of Jose Antonio Alonso, Minister of Defense. General Esteban was the last horseman of the Military order of San Fernando that was with life. The Real Order of San Fernando, well-known popularly like the honored one, was created by Cortes of Cadiz in 1811 and distinguishes the heroic conducts in feats of arms. To general Esteban to him it was granted being cavalry captain, by his gallant defense of the position of the Mines, in the front of Biscay, happened fact the 27 of May of 1937, when its swarm was attacked by very superior enemy forces in number and, exhausted the ammunition, it knew to reject them machete in hand. No mass media of national diffusion have become echo of the news. Not even ABC, where the family presented the death by means of one esquela, has dedicated a single line to the subject. Disdain, ignorance, deliberate ninguneo? The case is that in times in which so many informative spaces are filled with frivolous and insustanciales the news, when not openly stupid, silence on the death of the military veteran is everything a symptom of desmemoria historical and the mediatic triviality in which a long time ago we were installed. Why they serve the decorations? We have always thought that the prizes and distinctions wisely administered constitute a powerful instrument of social cohesion. The honor that reports has moved from immemorial time to the men and the towns to fulfill severity his stricter obligations. And the visible recognition that implies can encourage, in those who do not have them, the perfection yearning and the will superadores. For that reason they have existed, and they exist, in all the political regimes, independently of its particular ideological direction. Spain counts on a varied heap of orders and decorations, some of very old and prestigious them, who comprise by own right of the legal and iconogr?fico patrimony of all. And the Real and Military Order of San Fernando can be said that, along with the Insigne Order of the Tois?n de Oro, figure to the front of the roster of all of them. But unlike which it happens in other nations of our cultural and historical surroundings, where this class of traditions is respected and dealt with certain seriousness and honor, in our country the same it gives to belong to a chivalrous corporation that sinks its roots in the Average Age that to be member of a brotherhood with gastronomical and verbeneros aims. Trasfondo that sublies in this lamentable episode of social amnesia which we are examinee is of more pierced depth and would deserve a lengthy analysis. Thus, the proliferation in the last decades of decorations without a clear inspirador criterion and without the successive Governments of the Monarchy have worried to spread between the citizens and the institutions of the State a premial culture that within the framework explains the true reason of being of the honorary distinctions of a democratic society and the characteristics and peculiarities of each one of them. This way the present dripping of imposition of decorations on the part of the most different politicians and in the most many-colored places is explained, where the solemn rite as institutional ceremony is often supplanted by a putting in scene to the purest Hollywood style - spoiled words and atuendos, self-assured scenery and corporal gestures -, and any reference to Corona like phons honorum systematically silenced. Although the Real and Military Order of San Fernando is not extinguished formally with the death of the last one honored, because the Ministry of Defense, thanks to a decision of legal engineering, is going it to maintain in operation incorporating in its sine to the military distinguished with others you compensate of smaller category, the certain thing is that with the death of general Esteban an ancestry of servants of the arms disappears that knew to make of their lives a conduct style, of resignation and spirit of sacrifice today in frank declivity in our Armed Forces. By the others, although with the Regulation of the Order in the hand it is theoretically possible that they can grant itself in the future new honored, the military have very assumed the fact that in these times of asymmetric conflicts and paranoicas preventive wars will be actually impossible to credit the heroic value in the battlefield. To the aim you can rest peacefully, my general, after a total life of sense. Although the majority has not found out, History has reserved the honor to you to be the last representative of a confraternidad of chosen. Surely that at the moment you will be sharing the formation with the army of angels with swords that the Paradise guards.

The reverse

I have only the images of the another forum just posted by Rafaello Carola in http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/sho...highlight=spain

Type / Obverse / Reverse 1 / Ballon+EGA?A vertical / Ballon no marks 2 / EGA?A vertical / No marks 3 / AM under the neck del dragoon / INDUSTRIAS EGA?A below the helmet 4a / AM under the claw del dragoon / INDUSTRIAS EGA?A around the shield 4b / AM under the claw del dragoon / INDUSTRIAS EGA?A around the shield + AM under the end of eagle wing 4c / AM under the claw del dragoon / INDUSTRIAS EGA?A around the shield + AM under the helmet 4d / AM under the claw del dragoon / INDUSTRIAS EGA?A under the helmet. AM around the shield 4e / AM under the claw del dragoon / No marks 5 / No marks / INDUSTRIAS EGA?A 6 / EGA?A horizontal together to the tail del dragoon / No marks 7 / Lezos or Lizos horizontal together to the tail del dragoon / No marks 8 / No marks / No marks Any correction, update and also good images of the medaillons are very welcome, specially for types 3, 4a, 4b, 5 and 8 More informations about the german firms are also welcome (Steinhauer & Luck, Schickle y Paul Meybauer) I believe

CARL VON HAARTMAN: Any have a good pic of this finish captain, wear the spanish decorations? Thank you

I have this infos about the collaboration of Mr. John Duncan McMeekin

For more ribbons, please see: www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/europa/eslovaquia4.gif

I dont sure because the book is in slovak, except the identification of the medals with lists in german and english