Ed_Haynes

Rather than duplicate pre-existing threads (which should NOT be moved), see: Police - http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10182 Fire - http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10191

Rank - Superintendent, I believe. (A European, of course.) With some more checking, this style of uniform seems to have been dropped after WWI (but, police being police, they kept on wearing it later).

Ah . . . postings crossed. King's Crown and "IP" for sure, so 1907-47.

Very nice. While it is a little hard to tell, it looks to me like a King's Crown, which would put it sometime after 1903. Not much work has been done on uniforms and badges of the IPS, however. As the use of "IP" as a badge was, so far as I can tell, not sanctioned until 1907, this is most likely after that date. Most police were provincial.

A lovely group. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Muddy xerox, but INTERESTING!

I wasn't suggesting that ANYTHING should be changed, just observing the mistakes. That deviance is part of the history of these delightful pieces!

The first was a post by Rick "R" about a Mongolian ribbon bar. It is the first post in that long ribbon bar thread. We have come a long way. Thanks to the (few) survivors. We have lost more than a few in our nomadic wanderings, alas.

Interesting, checking the anal-retentive serial number list, all of these EXCEPT the #4 have been previously reported. Any documents?

:speechless1: What else is there to say. These are to a "Someone", for sure.

Please!!!

All these are from the "monster group"? Yum.

Think the blue one is something else?

Look like delegate credentials for various (national or aimag?) party conferences. When it says МАНДАТ. One is something else. Unfortunately, the archives of the МАХН seem to have been lost in the burning of the party headquarters after the most recent outburst of "democracy".

Yes, the ribbons are incredibly jumbled. Common for the era when no one quite knew (or cared). My guess is that he wears the WWI occupation medal ribbon to represent post-WWII occupation service. This was before the WWII occupation medal was widely available and some veterans and PXs "improvised". There should, of course, be NO star on the WWII Victory Medal. Nice examples of the garbled realist that existed in those days.

If he was British Army, yes. If he was Indian Army you'll need to go to the India Office Records (now at the British Library). So many don't understand the difference. Researchers? There must be some, but I don't have names. The two bodies of records are separate, very different, and call for similar but yet distinct research skills and strategies. A researcher who can work one place may well be lost in the other one, so it might be good to seek out a two-trick pony?

Reverse naming

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And a closeup (Please move your right shoulder forward . . . .)

One more. Odd uniform.

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