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Dear Gentlemen, Uganda–Tanzania War - Wikipedia Another " Nishani ya vita 1978-79 / War Medal 1978-79" with its case : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Samuel Rother, The Military Parachute Badge (French: Brevet parachutiste militaire (BPM)) is the standard course for every personnel in airborne units and all graduates of the école spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. It was created in 1946 and is awarded for six jumps, three daylight standard jumps, one daylight jump with the reserve parachute, one night jump without equipment, one night jump with full gear and equipment. Foreigners can get it. In French : Brevets parachutistes militaires français — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org) In English : Parachutist badge - Wikipedia You can see one here, on the uniform of a capitaine de gendarmerie : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear DavidS, In the "Bulletin des amis du vieux Hué 13e année № 3 juillet-septembre 1926" there is a long article about the "Bài / 牌". They are in silver or ivory. On the obverse the name of the chamberlain and on the reverse his class. Note : I used the photo of the reverse of the Bài posted by DavidS to illustrate this topic. Here are the "Bài / 牌" of "Chambellans au Service de Sa Majesté / Thị vệ / 侍衛 " : - 4th class in silver : - 4th class in ivory : - 5th class in ivory : As for the "Bài / 牌" with "Kiểm / " ( from Symboles et Traditions № 181) : - Hàn Lâm Viện Kiểm Thảo / analyste officiel : - Hàn Lâm Viện Kiểm Tịch / employé d'enregistrement : Well, all this to say that I'm not sure your Bài is of a chamberlain or what it is, exactly, sorry. Your sincerely, No one

Dear JapanX, Thank you. Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, After some research "chamberlains" are called "thị vệ 侍衛" at the Vietnamese court. Other possibilities : etc... but they must have "thị / 侍". Yours is "Kiểm / " which is used for "inspection / examination / etc... " Yours sincerely, No one

Dear JapanX, I had no idea there were so many, thank you for the link. I think mine is the 4th variation Miyazaki workshop. Is/was this workshop in the city / prefecture of Miyazaki or is it a family name? Thank you. Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Another women association : "Dai Nippon Defense Women's Association ". "Kokubo Fujinkai" or "Kokufu" was a Japanese women's organization that existed from 1932 to 1942. 国防婦人会 - Wikipedia some excerpt : In March 1932, Sei Yasuda and Eiko Mitani, housewives living in Ichioka, near the port of Osaka , played a central role, including Soten Oe of the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, the Chief of the Ichioka Police Station, and a member of the Military Police Special High School who became close to each other after seeing off the port. It was formed as the 'Osaka National Defense Women's Association' with the cooperation of After that, with the strong support of the military, in October of that year, the 'Greater Japan Defense Women's Association' was formed. The number of members increased rapidly through branch meetings based on residences and workplaces, and branch meetings were established throughout the country . It became a large organization surpassing Rengo Women's Association ( affiliated with the Ministry of Education , 1931-1942, abbreviated Renfu). In December 1940 , the National Women's General Headquarters had 9,052,932 members . Kokufu was merged with the parallel women's groups, Aifu and Renfu, to form ' Dainihon Fujinkai ' (1942 - 1945, abbreviated as Nichifu). . Kokufu had a slogan, "National defense starts in the kitchen." In the early days of Kokufu, women would leave the kitchen in their kappo clothes and go out into the streets to carry out various ``national defense'' activities. Seeing off expeditionary soldiers Support for family members who are away Reception of wounded soldiers and remains Procurement and delivery of comfort bags Laundry in barracks and military hospitals air defense exercises There are many badges here is a red one : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Marcon1, Thank you for contributing, nice photo. Very interesting place and history. The last commissioner of Wei-hai-wei was Sir Reginald Johnston (1927–1930), the tutor to Pu YI and author of " Twilight in the Forbidden City". British Weihaiwei - Wikipedia Reginald Johnston - Wikipedia Twilight in the Forbidden City - Wikipedia Yours sincerely, No one

Dear TracA, Beautiful caligraphy : Actually it's "愛國婦人會" not "愛国婦人會". The same for those two orders : Order of the Sacred Treasure : it's "瑞寶章" not "瑞宝章" on cases / award documents / officially Orders of the Precious Crown : it's "寶冠章" not "宝冠章" on cases / award documents / officially Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlement, New photo: Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gordon Craig, Thank you for the information, the wide brimmed hats puzzled me. Yours sincerely, No one

Dear DavidS, Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your Bài ngà (牌牙) is very stange (to me). It's not a question of style, it's just poorly written. I can figure out what are the first and last Chinese characters ( chữ Hán). I tried to explain directly on your picture, if it's not clear enough, let me know. Here is a correctly written one, you can compare with what I wrote on the right, it is the same (the "brushstrokes" are slightly different): In 2018 an imitation was sold on Ebay : In this book "The Traditional Awards Of Annam" by Sylvester & Husken, Sylvester speaks of "amulets and questionnable pieces" page 131. It took many years but I finally found out what was "The fifth degree respected elder". "The Five Venerables (The Great Mandarins) in Mother Worship" : The Five Honored Commanders (Ngũ Vị Tôn Quan). The First Grand Commander (Quan Lớn Đệ Nhất) His full title is The First Crown Prince and Princely Commander of Heaven (Đệ Nhất Thượng Thiên Hoàng Thái Tử Vương Quan) The Second Grand Commander (Quan Lớn Đệ Nhị) His full title is The Second Supervising Commander of Highlands (Đệ Nhị Thượng Ngàn Giám Sát). His other common title is the Supervising Commander (Quan Giám Sát). The Third Grand Commander (Quan Lớn Đệ Tam) His full title is The Third Crown Prince and Princely Commander of Water Palace (Đệ Tam Thoải Phủ Hoàng Thái Tử Vương Quan). The Fourth Grand Commander (Quan Lớn Đệ Tứ) His full title is The Fourth Imperial Commissioner of the Four Palaces (Đệ Tứ Khâm Sai Quyền Cai Tứ Phủ). His other common title is the Imperial Commissioner Commander (Quan Khâm Sai). The Fifth Grand Commander (Quan Đệ Ngũ) His full title is The Fifth Grand Commander of Tuần Tranh (Quan Lớn Đệ Ngũ Tuần Tranh) -links : Ngũ Vị Tôn Quan Năm Ông Quan Lớn - Đền Thờ- Lễ Tiệc Quan (congvientamlinh.com) Ngũ Vị Tôn Quan là ai ? - Phủ Dầy Nam Định (phuday.com) Ngũ Vị Tôn Quan - 5 vị Quan lớn trong Tứ Phủ - Thần thoại Việt Nam (truyenxuatichcu.com) Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Presentation of the "1971 War Medal / Tamgha-i-Jang 1391" instituted in 1971: - see : Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 - Wikipedia - miniature : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Presentation of the "1971 War Star / Sitara-i-Harb 1391" instituted in 1971: - see : Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 - Wikipedia - miniature : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Presentation of the "1965 War Medal / Tamgha-i-Jang 1385" instituted in 1965, bilingual: - see : Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 - Wikipedia Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Presentation of the "1965 War Star / Sitara-i-Harb 1385" instituted in 1965, bilingual: - see : Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 - Wikipedia - to "7015763 LNK Nazir Ahmed E.M.E": - to "339764 SEP BASHIR AHMED AKRF": - to "10142 SEP RAZA M IR": Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Le chef d'état-major général des armées, le général de corps d'armée Zakaria Cheick Ibrahim: Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Karhu, Is your information from a document? Please, thank you. Here, I have the medal awarded to a French officer who was a "capitaine de gendarmerie". He trained the "Garde Présidentielle" in the early 90s. - He's a friend of mine and he was so kind as to send me his uniform: (he kept the two "brevets", these are substitutes that I purchased) another group : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, A nice picture but who are they?: British Weihaiwei - Wikipedia Yours sincerely, No one

Dear JapanX, Thanks for this link. I didn't realize there were forgeries. Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, I found the source of this false identification: Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, A picture : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, Note : Mandarin is a spoken language not written. Written Chinese is called zhōngwén (中文 ) As for the case : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, A beautiful order indeed. To identify the 9 classes : Yours sincerely, No one

Dear Gentlemen, From here : and here : A badge and a medal of the "New People Society", a Chinese society sponsored by Japan : Yours sincerely, No one