Ed_Haynes

And the odd (replacement?) document.

93rd Separate Tank Brigade, 4th Tank Army ? T-34 Radio Operator/Machine Gunner. Single salty "For Bravery".

For more details, see: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14691 (I am trying to get new ribbon sources in Pakistan and will do my best to get a quantity of the three ribbons into the OMSA ribbon bank, but things aren't easy there these days.)

Oh! This is a nice one!!

Yes, but an honortary KBE, no knighthood. (Although he seems to wear a GBE badge and KBE star?)

The "quality" of the photo does nothing to inspire any confidence. A real 2nd class would have had a good scan.

The OMSA ribbon bank has everything. But you need to be a member. You are, of course?

Yes, a delightful piece: Peter Charlton, "Malawian Medal Issues of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda," Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, 48, 1 (March 2009): 15-21.

Yes, Chris. Very complex. It is my understanding that, with unification in 1958, both Egypt and Syria kept their own preexisting awards (kind or a pre-nuptual agreement?). But any new UAR award (and there were many) continued in both areas after the split in 1961 (legally, 1971) as a sort of joint custody.

Unbelievable! I do not believe I have ever seen worse. And for a common medal.

For those who are not linguisically deficient (as I am), see: http://nevskye.narod.ru/ Interestingly, the listing includes seven Nevsky awards for the 1956 Hungarian operation.

Thanks! This is very helpful. Each country has its own individual order for wearing and, presumably, these are published somewhere in all the mountains of paper that each government generates. They are published, made as rules and regulations, and then ignored by those in- or out-of-uniform. Plus, they change over time.

I am now very confused about two issues (beyond specific identifications): 1- The order of wearing. But it seems the generals (and their military tailors) are most confused as well? 2- The Wisam al-Tadrib / Medal of Training: Does it have classes? Again, thanks for these. I love puzzles and love learning (and being confused).

And my guesses on the second one: 1- Order of Civil Merit, Excellent Class; Order of Military Merit, 1st (?) Class 2- Order of Civil Merit, 1st Class; ??? (I should know this!); Order of Bravery, 1st Class 3- Order of Devotion, Excellent Class; Long & Exceptional Service; Medal of Training, Palm???; Order of Devotion, 1st Class 4- Medal of Training, Star???; Union Order; Victory Medal; Medal of Training 5- Army Day Commemorative Medal; Air Force Medal; Syrian Arab Army Medal; Medal of 8 March 6- 25th Anniversary of the Syrian Army; Medal of 6 October; ??? (Kuwait Liberation?); ??? Would guess he isn't wearing foreign things?

Another LOVELY ribbon bar, Elie. Thanks. If the incredibly cranky internet this morning allows, let me try at an identification. The first one (reproduced below): 1- Order of Civil Merit, Excellent Class; Order of Civil Merit, 1st Class 2- Order of Bravery, 1st Class; Long & Exceptional Service; Order of Devotion, Excellent Class 3- Order of Devotion, 1st Class; Medal or Training. Palm???; Union Order; Victory Medal 4- Medal of Training, Star???; Army Day Commemorative Medal; Syrian Arab Army Medal; Medal of 8 March 5- 25th Anniversary of the Syrian Army; Medal of 6 October; ??? (Kuwait Liberation?); ??? 6- ???; ???; ???; Something Kuwaiti but I can't remember what 7- ???; Saudi Combat Medal; Saudi Kuwait Liberation; Kuwaiti Kuwait Liberation Help?????!!!!!

Not much is known, but the order is in two classes, gold and silver, this is the first class in gold. Named after Schamil, one of the anti-Russian Chechen nationalist leaders of the nineteenth centuiry.

Document interior. Unissued.

Document exterior.

Name uncertain.

There is also a variety without enemel and with a different reverse. Help?!

Document interior. Unissued.

Document exterior.

Established 2004.

Doicument anyone?

Created by the Ex-Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1999.