Antonio Prieto

See https://coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/omm19361977.htm and https://coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/estudioomm.htm

Thank you for share. The colonel Gavarrete, among others, show the Spanish Cross of Military Merit (wthite disctinction). The first one

See https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2017/05/24/xxx-corps-formation-patches/

See https://www.emedals.com/poland-a-1956-spanish-civil-war-commemorative-medal-with-document

In Scandaluzzi, Franco: "The War of Spain 1936-1939 in the 50th Anniversary of the Pronunciamiento", 1987, p. 36 1415 medals are awarded (666 after the insittution in 1956 and the rest were conferred in the years until 1974 with no more awards made thereafter

Thank you Cambridge sculptor Harry Gray’s idea for a Covid Star People’s Medal for NHS and care workers wins support https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/cambridge-sculptor-s-idea-for-a-covid-star-people-s-medal-for-nhs-and-care-workers-wins-support-9146575/

Thank you Interested in the spanish period, specially for the local makers Joaquín Ardavín, B. Gutiérrez y hermano, José Pereda, etc. See

A gift for the members of the forum. A poster with the order of wearing of the Spanish, multinational and some foreign ribbon bar decorations https://coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/POSTER.pdf

Despite the pandemic

See PRIETO BARRIO, Antonio "Las condecoraciones en la Segunda República Española”, Revista de Historia Militar, 117 (2015), pp. 231-289 https://publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/media/downloadable/files/links/R/E/REVISTAS_PDF3566.pdf The decorations in the 2ns Spanish Republic

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50th anniversary of Independence commemorative Medal

New European Security and Defence Policy Service Medals- EUNAVFOR Med IRINI MPCC, Military Planning and Conduct Capability

https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/10/26/order-of-the-cayman-islands-award-relaunched/ The newly designed Order of the Cayman Islands medals.

Commemorative medal on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the participating in the defence against the NATO aggression, 2019 http://www.nabavke.mod.gov.rs/multimedia/dodaci/6423_7_19_konkursna_dokumentacija_jn_broj_14_2019_1599027578.pdf

Iran Medal of appreciation for the nurses who are saving people’s lives during the battle with coronavirus i https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/447457/Javad-Bakhtiari-designs-medal-of-appreciation-for-nurses

Spain. Medal for the Operation Balmis. To recognize the personnel of the Armed Forces and civilian personnel assigned to the Ministry of Defense who have participated in the fight against COVID-19, within the framework of said operation https://coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/balmis.htm Switzerland

Perhaps it would be convenient to change the title if at the end we are going to include the medals related to COVID-19 and not only the one from Johore

Working in progress

Also the Italian ribbon for the Armed Forces https://infodifesa.it/forze-armate-nastrino-di-merito-per-il-personale-impiegato-nellemergenza-covid-19/

Also I known any from Russia and other from Ukraine The spanish medal is only for the Armed Forces members, not Police or Guardia Civil Ukrainian international medal award"COVID-19 - for honorary service" wolrd fight with coronavirus Russian medical medal award"For their selfless fight against with coronavirus COVID-19" https://chelznak.ru/shop/manufacturer/enterprise/item_20791/

The two stars appears as the NATO. I dont kown... The flags not are maritime signs

Any idea for the identification? Thank you

Electronic translation Ministerial Order 50/2020, of September 4, by which the requirements and procedure for the award, annotation and description of the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis are determined. Royal Decree 701/2020, of July 28, creates the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis to recognize the personnel participating in the fight against COVID-19. This operation has represented the largest deployment of the Spanish Armed Forces in peacetime. During the development of the operation, the Armed Forces have helped citizens from all corners of Spain to face and mitigate the pandemic and its effects, through continuous and effective support to different public and private Administrations and Institutions. The second final provision of Royal Decree 701/2020, of July 28, which creates the commemorative medal of the Balmis operation, empowers the head of the Ministry of Defense to adopt the necessary measures required for the execution of this royal decree and, in particular, in accordance with its sole article. 2, to determine the award requirements and the rules on the procedure for processing, awarding and scoring the aforementioned medal. In order to achieve the greatest speed and simplification in the processing of the recognition of the award of the medal, it is necessary to go to the figure of the delegation of powers of the Minister of Defense to the Chief of Defense Staff, in accordance with the provisions of article 9 of Law 40/2015, of October 1, on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector. During its processing, the project of this ministerial order has been made known to the professional associations with representation in the Armed Forces Personnel Council and to the rest of the associations registered in the Registry of Professional Associations of members of the Armed Forces. By virtue of it, in accordance with the provisions of the second final provision of Royal Decree 701/2020, of July 28, I HAVE: Article 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ministerial order is to establish the requirements and procedure for the award, annotation and description of the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis. Article 2. Scope of application. This ministerial order is applicable to the personnel of the Armed Forces and civilian personnel attached to the Ministry of Defense who have participated in the fight against COVID-19 within the framework of Operation Balmis. Article 3. Requirements for the award of the commemorative medal for Operation Balmis. Military and civilian personnel assigned to the Ministry of Defense who meet the following requirements will be entitled to the award of the honorary medal commemorating Operation Balmis: 1. To have participated in the framework of the Balmis operation, from March 15 to June 20, 2020, performing any of the following missions: a) Disinfection interventions, transfer of the sick or deceased and treatment of the sick: at least two interventions. b) Execution of presence patrols on public roads and critical points, reinforcement of borders, surveillance of infrastructures or reconnaissance of sensitive points: at least three days. c) Duties of direct support to the operation through land, sea or air transport, reception and distribution of medical supplies, castrating activities, support in facilities or food collection and distribution: at least three days or six hours of flight. d) Personnel of the units in charge of the attention, management and control of air traffic referred to in letter c): at least five days. e) Those personnel who accumulate at least four days / interventions adding their participation in the activities described in letters a), b) and c). f) Personnel integrated into command or support structures in command of the operation: at least five days. g) Health support activities for Authorities and Civil Organizations, as well as support for the civilian population and intervening personnel: at least five days. h) Support activities for direct relatives of the sick and deceased: at least five days. i) Deployment on board ships that provide accommodation for third parties or hospital medical capabilities: at least three days. j) Direct support to hospitals, units and agencies for the execution of administrative sanitary and maintenance tasks: at least three days. k) Other logistical or health support tasks developed during the Balmis operation: at least three days or six hours of flight. 2. By day is understood the duration of a working day, counting whether they are continuous or discontinuous. Article 4. Procedure for processing and concession. 1. The procedure for the awarding of the commemorative medal for Operation Balmis will begin ex officio. 2. The General Directorate of Personnel, the General Directorate of Recruitment and Military Education, the Commands and Headquarters of Personnel of the Armies and Navy (MAPER / JEPER), the General Inspection of Defense Health, the Operations Command, the Unit Military of Emergencies and the Military Room of the House of SM The King shall send to the Headquarters of Human Resources of the Defense Staff the nominal list of the personnel who meet the concession requirements. In this relationship, the army, body, scale, employment, specialty, name, surname and national identity document will be specified. 3. Prior to the referral of said nominal relationship, the bodies cited in the previous section will require each of the persons who appear in the relationship, to submit a statement responsible for not having been convicted of a crime, or is not being investigated by criminal acts, or not having been disciplined for very serious or serious offenses committed during the duration of the operation. 4. The Human Resources Headquarters of the Defense General Staff, once the applications have been received, will supervise them and submit them to the consideration and approval of the Defense Chief of Staff for management and subsequent publication in the «Official Gazette of the Ministry of Defence". 5. Personnel who do not depend on the bodies mentioned in section 2 but who are included in the scope of this ministerial order and who meet the criteria for awarding the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis, will be included in the Nominal relations of personnel certified by the MAPER / JEPER to which the military units in which they have been integrated or assigned for the Balmis operation belong, prior declaration of responsibility in section 3. 6. The military and civilian personnel assigned to the Ministry of Defense who consider themselves creditor of the decoration and have not been granted ex officio may request it, by means of a request addressed to the corresponding authority in section 2, which must be accompanied by the documents that justify that qualifies for its award. The administrative silence will be dismissive. 7. The commemorative medal for Operation Balmis may only be awarded to each person worthy of it on one occasion. 8. The ex officio procedure for awarding the commemorative medal will have a maximum duration of six months from the entry into force of this ministerial order. Article 5. Concession. The commemorative medal for Operation Balmis will be awarded by the Minister of Defense. Concession power is delegated to the Chief of Defense Staff. Article 6. Entry of the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis. The awarding of the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis will be noted in the section related to "Decorations" of the service record of military personnel by the personnel management bodies on which the interested parties depend. Article 7. Description of the decoration corresponding to the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis. 1. The decoration of the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis will have the following characteristics, as shown in the annex: a) Medal of circular shape, 32 millimeters wide. b) On its obverse and in its center, on a gold field, six interlaced hands and in high relief, flesh color, exergue of sinople (green), with the motto, in gold, FUERZAS armadas (Armed Forces) at the top of the semicircle and SIEMPRE POR ESPAÑA (Always for Spain) in the lower part of the semicircle. Bordered with two ribbed branches of laurel that are joined by its trunk, all in gold. c) On its reverse, smooth, in black wooden letters, it will bear the legend "Operation Balmis." All this stamped with a closed royal gold crown, lined with gules. d) The ribbon from which the medal must be worn will be 30 millimeters wide and 30 millimeters long, whose colors are red and yellow, in the middle, with two stripes of black on the both Sides. The ribbon will be attached to a gold-colored buckle pin 35 millimeters long and 12 millimeters wide, which allows the ribbon to pass through it and with a safety pin as a closure on the back. Article 8. Description of the pin of the commemorative medal of Operation Balmis. The representative pin of the decoration corresponding to the commemorative medal of the Balmis operation, is constituted by the ribbon of the medal in the described colors, 30 millimeters long by 10 millimeters wide, mounted on a gold metal frame, and framed by two side bars of said metal, each 12 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide, as shown in the annex. Single additional provision. Extraordinary and exceptional award. 1. The commemorative medal of Operation Balmis may be awarded, on an extraordinary and exceptional basis, to military and civilian personnel assigned to the Ministry of Defense, not included in the scope of this ministerial order, who have participated or collaborated in the Operation Balmis. 2. The procedure will begin ex officio at the request of the Chief of Defense Staff, Undersecretary of Defense or Chiefs of Staff of the Armies and Navy. 3. The Chief of Defense Staff will assess the extraordinary and exceptional circumstances of the participation or collaboration and will submit the proposal to the Minister of Defense for the authorization of the concession.