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1914 "Mons" Star
Ed_Haynes replied to Riley1965's topic in Great Britain: Orders, Gallantry, Campaign Medals
OK, still lots of unanswered questions - date of entry into theatre? any sign of a clasp qualification? Not sure what advice you got, Doc, but there's way to go yet! -
Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Ed_Haynes replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
We have no (or little) control over what others do to the things that come to us (though, if we know, we can strive to avoid monkeyed-with items). We do have great (almost total) control over what WE do to the items in our custody. -
Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Ed_Haynes replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Repairs and damage (even modifications) done by the recipient are one thing; "repairs" (or "restorations") done by later custodians (including dealers) are something else entirely! -
Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Ed_Haynes replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
A shame someone mucked with the enamel on that one. On some things (very few) I am a conservative (conservationist?). -
1914 "Mons" Star
Ed_Haynes replied to Riley1965's topic in Great Britain: Orders, Gallantry, Campaign Medals
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Efforts to represent enameled ribbons in painted domed plastic: 1- Red Banner of Combat Valor, Order of the Polar Star, Order of the Polar Star 2- Honorary Medal of Combat, Medal "We Won" 3- Honorary Medal of Labor, Honorary Medal of Labor / Medal "25 Years of the MPR", Soviet Victory over Japan, Medal "We Won" (out of order, of course)
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An enameled ribbon bar of: 1- Honorary Medal of Labor 2- Medal "We Won" 3- Medal "25 Years of the MPR"
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One of the most delightful things about Mongolian awards are the early (pre-1961) enamel ribbon bars. Can we show our solo bars (with the later cloth bars, if possible) and any enamel ribbon bar groups here? If possible, can we also show the official post-1961 cloth ribbon bars too? (As much fun as the domed plastic bars are, they are unofficial and often bizarre examples of artictic [?] inventiveness.) I have all but the Sukhbaatar (help??) in enamel.
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I am glad others have the same problem as I do! Army Service Corps.
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A nice collection and avery nice presentation, Brian. While these may raise more questions than they answer, every little bit of evidence we can get in untangling "things Ethiopian" may, someday, somehow, help. Thanks again.
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Would guess it has to do with the restrictions -- probably completely illogical -- put forward by the libraries that owned the copies that Google scanned. That is to say: Randomness. On one level, I am amazed that they allow anything to be scanned. You have to think like a librarian in this age where no one knows what copyright laws if any really apply and so many feel they are absolutely free to steal things and redistribute them.
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M.M. to a French soldier...
Ed_Haynes replied to Chris Boonzaier's topic in Great Britain: Orders, Gallantry, Campaign Medals
Since I still have A&T out, even at the risk of getting , here are the WWII honorary MMs: U.S.A. - 310 Free French - 185 Poland - 63 Belgium - 24 Greece - 24 Norway - 23 Czechoslovakia - 18 Netherlands - 9 U.S.S.R. - 4 And, as with WWI, these numbers may be low and incomplete. -
1914 "Mons" Star
Ed_Haynes replied to Riley1965's topic in Great Britain: Orders, Gallantry, Campaign Medals
You should get his MIC from the National Archives (online) and see if he qualified for the clasp. While we might have wished for a more uncommon surname than "Cooper" a quick look finds no mention of him on the often-cranky CWGC site, so, presumably, he survived the war. -
I suspect there is a good deal of mixed urban myth and intentional misunderstanding at work here. Rather like the Iron Cross that was "given" to Captain P. B. Bhuracha, DSO, IMS (the first Indian DSO, by the way) by a German officer he was treating. Sure, the German "gave" him an Iron Cross; it wasn't "awarded to" him. (This is rather different from the Iron Cross said to have been awarded to the brother of Jemadar Mir Dost, VC, IOM, Bahadur, 55th Coke's Rifles, the second Indian to get the VC. Mir Dost's brother -- also in the 55th -- defected to the German side and is said to have been awarded the Iron Cross as a political/propaganda award.)
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M.M. to a French soldier...
Ed_Haynes replied to Chris Boonzaier's topic in Great Britain: Orders, Gallantry, Campaign Medals
Abbot and Tamplin (2nd ed., p. 227) list 5,688 honorary MM awards for WWI (and freely admit their list is incomplete). By country: France - 2,472 Italy - 1,320 Belgium - 442 U.S.A. - 413 Czechoslovakia - 320 Rumania - 259 Serbia - 171 Greece - 149 Portugal - 76 Japn - 68 Russia - 7 For comparison, for WWII, there were only 660 honorary awards.