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Translation.

Part 2.

Record card, part 1

His medals.

Very interesting. Thanks! Makes me think back to my first Soviet medal, a solo Glory III to First Sergeant of the Guards Alexandra Vasilyevna Grebenschchikova. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2329

Glad to see you are having fun here. It may be better to take non-English conversation over into PMs, as this is an Anglophone forum. If it is related to the medals, we'd all like to read what you are saying. If it is not, does it belong here?

A rather uninteresting back with nasty points. Rather like the dynasty? (Attachment blob missing lower left -- again, suggestive of history?) (At least it doesn't eat you, much, though it gave me a scar. But not a cannibal, unlike the dynasty. )

Native Russian speaker time, then???

Does this help? (Intresting badge! )

Just to compare the three Order of the Sadul Star of Bikaner badges that live with me. Some very interesting comparisons emerge.

BUNDI: Accession Medal, 1945 (?) McClenaghan, #97, pp. 108-9 Based on the recent M&E sale, this ribbon is probably incorrect?

A very naughty one, A Thing That Should Not Be, but it was, and is.

Absolutely, "Slava"! This was what The Researcher found most interesting and most instructive too. It is nice to know there are always new things to learn.

Still sorting through the documents (and flattening them out with great care -- they had been rolled). This certificate (1 April Meiji 39) is the earliest. Beyond this: 8 August Meiji 39 - awarded 1st class honors13 October Meiji 39 - completion of a course in ??? at Army Toyama School13 October Meiji 39 - certificate in excellence in gymnastics from Army Toyama School30 Novembber Meiji 39 - ordered to Army Toyama School for instruction1 December Meiji 39 - appointed senior sergeant (Army Toyama School)27 December Meiji 39 - award of 1 yen 43 sen for merit, Army Toyama School17 September Meiji 40 - certificate from Imperial Soldier's Support League certifying "that in the 1904-05 War you were decorated for fighting with great bravery and being wounded" and are "given the loyal and brave cherry blossom medal" - to him as "Former Army Infantry Sergeant" 1 December Meiji 40 - awarded 2nd class honors, Army Toyama School26 December Meiji 40 - award of 26 yen 55 sen for merit, Army Toyama School1 December Meiji 41 - awarded 1st class honors, Army Toyama School14 December Meiji 41 - award of 30 yen 10 sen for merit, Army Toyama School20 April Taisho 7 - certificate from Greater Japan Budo School, ??? Branch, for donation of 2 yen toward founding of Ibaragi branchLet me know which (if any) you want me to try to scan. As you know, these are large and cranky. Help!!

Given what we all now know you have , it will be well worth the expenditure and the wait!

I'd still get the real things. As we now see very clearly, that book is far less than accurate.

Having established that it is kosher -- and please don't gloat too much, Christian , though you may well have earned that right -- the next step is to get back to The Researcher and finish the task with his recommendations and whatever else can be found. Research is ALWAYS better than guessing.

A new, nice, and numbered Red Banner, #0323. Better quality than most (early?).

A new and nice PDRA mounted group.

Stamp on reverse: "1 September Meiji 39 [= 1906 CE]. Official gazette supplement."

As some of you know (or may have guessed), I love documented groups. This one has a ton of them. Hard to scan, so it will take some time to get them up (and I may not inflict all of them on you unless you insist). This "Army Sergeant Miyamoto Uraji "This certifies that for bravery and merit during the Meiji 37-38 War [the war with Russia] you are awarded the 6th class Order of the Golden Kite, an annual pension of 200 Yen, and the 7th class Order of the Rising Sun. "1 April Meiji 39 [= 1906 C.E.]. "Viscount Motoharu Hisashi Junior 2nd rank and holder of the 1st order of merit. Director General, Bureau of Merit and Awards."

Have just welcomed the group to Senior Sergeant Miyamoto Uraji, Infantry. Bad tarnish on the Kite, but still nice?

And with document though not the award document but rather the Japanese "permission to accept and wear" document. (Sorry, it is so big that I had to scan it in two pieces and glue the scans together.) To Army Infantry Captain 7th Rank and holder of the 6th Order of Merit Saige Shoji, 1 March Showa 9 (= 1934 CE).

Cased.

A nice specimen of the only decoration of Manchuguo.