Ed_Haynes

Nice pieces with history. Any plans to research them? Usually nice tales to tell! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, even nicer at a visible size!

Nice badge. How large? What size??

No, some of us would just like to undo a historical error. But, then, you might not want us.

' Unless there is some duplicate documentation out there that has eluded research (always possible ), this seems to have been her only medal. What I have is in the linked thread.

Not to hijack your thread, Chris, but I thought I'd offer a bit more "eye candy". One for the "first round" and two for the "second and last round". 1- Sutlej Medal - medal for "ALIWAL" with clasp for "SOBRAON", named to "SEP. ____ CHUND. 5th or SIRMOOR RIFLE BATTn" (heavily worn and naming rubbed - what else did he have?!) - for First Sikh War. 1845-46 2- Punjab Medal - "MOOLTAN", named to "PRIvt MATTA BUCCUS 4TH BATTn ARTILLERY." 3- Punjab Medal - "MOOLTAN" and "GOOJERAT", named to "PRIVATE. MAUN SINGH. SCINDE CAMEL. B. C." - in pristine condition, very likely never issues as the camel baggage corps boys were hard to track down after the war

To complete the set (the Itur ha`oz / Valor Decoration is shown above), the: Itur Hagvura / Heroism Decoration See: http://www.yairmalachi.org/MedalsOfIsrael/Medal_of_Valor.htm Itur Hamofet / Medal for Distinguished Service See: http://www.yairmalachi.org/MedalsOfIsrael/...hed_Service.htm

Interesting, see the solo Order of Glory 3 to First Sergeant A. V. Grebenschchikova. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2329 Her recommendation: "When fighting against German invaders Guards First Sergeant Grebenschchikova was among the first to cross in the forging of the River Oder [ca. 22 Jan 1945] and under strong machine-gun and artillery fire rendered medical assistance to 75 wounded. She took 63 heavily wounded persons with their personal weapons away from the battlefield. "The Guards First Sergeant Grebenschchikova deserves a government award, Order of the Red Banner." While this award was down-graded to an Order of Glory, it was approved 20 March 1945. The medal, however, was not physically awarded until 28 March 1990. The 23 year old nurse got the award for her deeds when she was 70.

Following this campaign, the first United Nationa peacekeeping force was establish, the Unitedd Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). While missing one medal ( ), the group to 4436391 Havildar Bachittar Singh, Sikh Light Infantry, with his UNEF medal at the end:

I do not have, alas, either the medal or the image of the Egyptian medal for this campaign, the Nuut al-Nasr / Victory Medal, awarded to commemorate the first anniversary of the foreign evacuation of Port Said (Egypt). The medal was presented to all members of the armed forces and to military students who were serving on 23 December 1958. Can someone supply?

While we have remembered, elsewhere, the phaleristic aspects of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, we have ignored the Suez Crisis of 1956. 1- Great Britain -- General Service Medal, 1918-62: ?Near East? (the relevant clasp) and "Cyprus" -- named to "23277668 SPR. J. F. COLLISTON, R.E." -- I do not have the corresponding Naval General Service Medal, can someone supply? 2- France -- M?daille d?Orient: ?Moyen-Orient? 3- Israel -- ribbon for the Sinai Campaign, 1956

The book is ABSOLUTELY first rate! Even those of us in Southern Canada can read it with great interest.

Have to look - a FASCINATING slice of social history, though!!

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9321

A nice one, Christian. Thanks!

Putting this over in the "Coins & Commemorative Medallions" section -- http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=65 -- might get a quicker response, as this is a numismatic medal, not a phaleristic medal. Quite different creatures. Can someone with God Powers move it?

Did you just buy whichever "class" you could afford? Was it that simple? That capitalist?? That open to the fantastical interpretation of jewelers' imaginations??? (Like so many other inter-war things phaleristic?)

Nice one. Envy exudes.

So true, Rick: BUKZ IZ ITT!!! (and welcome back to tha land of the living - and to here too )

Interesting . . . though the site won't open for me . . .

Major references for what I just posted: Christopher Buyers, http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Jordan/jordan.htm Flags of the World, http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/hejaz.html OMSA Medal Database, http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=616 Megan Robertson, http://www.medals.org.uk/jordan/jordan004.htm ?Rulers?, http://rulers.org/ruli.html#iraq ?Rulers?, http://rulers.org/ruljk.html#jordan ?Rulers?, http://rulers.org/ruls1.html#saudi_arabia ?Rulers?, http://rulers.org/ruls3.html#syria

The Wisam an-Nahada / Supreme Order of the Renaissance is still awarded by King Abdullah II. In closing, the Late King Hussein and Queen Noor with their medals.

This is the most common badge, and was mad in many places. As an example, this (though the ribbon has been flipped for the cased commander's badge):

The relocated order would have its badge redesigned (if necessary) to reflect the post-1921 flag (black / white / green). It woudl also be expanded into classes (although this may have taken place earlier): --- a special class - Mourassa - Grand Cordon in brilliants - jeweled 65-mm badge (with a diamond added in the center of the badge) with sash and star ? reserved for foreign heads of state --- Grand Cordon - sash, 65-mm sash badge, and 95-mm star (worn on the left breast) ? reserved for princes, heads of government, and others of similar rank --- Grand Officer - 45-mm neck badge (on 38-mm ribbon) and 95-mm star (worn on the left breast) --- Commander - 45-mm neck badge (on 38-mm ribbon) --- Officer - 45-mm breast badge on a 38-mm ribbon with a 27-mm rosette --- Knight - 45-mm breast badge on a 38-mm ribbon --- silver medal - just the central circular medallion (enameled) without the surrounding star I can show most of these classes, if anyone wishes. In 1952, however, when the well-known King Hussein (r. 1952-99) ascended the throne, the ribbon was redesigned, to equal stripes of black, white and green; with a narrow red stripe in the centre of the white stripe.

When King Ali and, by extension, King Hussein found themselves unemployed by King Abdul Aziz's victory (they would live, respectively, until 1935 and 1931), they could find both personal and dynastic refuge with family. -- In March 1920, King Hussein's son and King Ali's brother Faysal ibn Hussein al-Hashimi had been established by the British as king of the newly created Syria. Syria, however, had been given by the British and French to the French, and the French knew full well how to deal with kings. In July 1920, King Faisal found himself slso without a job until he was reinatsllaed (again, by the British) as King of the newly created Iraq in August 1921 (he would, personnaly, continue as king until his death in September 1933, the foreign dynasty would continue until it was consumed by revolution in July 1958). It was in Iraq that the family members would take refuge. -- In April 1921, King Hussein's son and King Ali's brother Abdullah ibn al-Husayn al-Hashimi had been established by the British as king of the newly created Emirate of Transjordan, the leftover pieces after the British had carved out their protectorate in Palestine. While his brother in Iraq got the family memers (Baghdad being a better place to live than Amman?), Abdullah got the flag and, for us the most important, orders. He adopted the Wisam an-Nahada and the Wisam al-Istiqial and traneformed them, in 1925, into Transjordanian (after 1949 Jordanian) orders.