Ed_Haynes

My only example (I am holding out for a nice documented single or documented group where the international "link" is clear -- talk about being picky!) is the one in that problem child of a "group-that-probably-isn't-a-group" that pops up everywhere. #10705 See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2456

Thanks, Mondvor. That is a clear version of the muddy photo I had a scan of. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Thanks again.

If I have varieties that "fill the gaps", I'll add more tomorrow. The flatbacks are especially nice., though. Have several.

That's a mild version of what my colleague in Russian history said. Thanks.

Any numbered? Or, better yet, on original suspensions??

As I said in another thread, while they don't share the considerable appeal of having been awarded for killing Nazis, they are nice awards that, if we could ever decipher their stories, would speak to the reality of the CCCP more so than a long-service Red Banner.

I have never seen evidence for this, but I get the sense that from late in the GPW, photos were not normally placed in award books, or al least they were valid without them. I have always assumed that the nuisance of doing this outweighed the need to actually issue awards to recipients without delay to wait for the cameraman. Sure, in some cases, the photos or missing (whether fallen out or -- more rarely?? -- torn out), but a post-1943 (or so) award WITH a photo seems to me a bit of a rarity. Others wiser than I may (please) chime in??

Suspect that works for Russian. Russian isn't Mongolian. At least they are going back to a script that works. (And just as I was getting secure in Mongolian Cyrillic! )

Usually "Khalkhin Gol" at least in Mongolian (and on the Mongolian sub-forum -- where that badge belongs anyway). See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5087 http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6881 I find it interesting that he does not have/wear the KG badge?

See also over at: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=508 (where, OMSA member or not, contributions would be welcomed!)

Or, for imperial, "White", and other Russian flags, try the Mother of All Sites at: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru_emp.html and, especially, http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru-1920.html

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Document (somewhat retrospective), part 1:

and, finally, type 4, variety 2, # 1095983 (1975)

Type 4, variety 1, # 574821 (1967) (rehabilitated??)

Temporary certificate (but from 1946??):

Blame Darrell, he asked . . . . 1- Type 2, variety 5, # 19261 (1942).

The type 2, variety 5, #19844 (1942), from the Lomtatidze group. See also: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6830

See http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5556 for the Georgadze group, with a T2V5, a T4V1 and a T4V2. Maybe I should put up detailed scans of each here?

It is a hard one to scan!

As I said, I have shown some on other threads that I'll not repost here, but I did want to cross-reference my favorite, the one to Alexey Karpovich Sergeev, a type 2, var. 4, #12577, of 1940. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2733

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With document (#096481) to Aleksandra Fedorovna Uglanova (female), 8 August 1966. Document is the 1957 printing, variation 4.

Well, we have "sprouted" threads on most of the other awards, indiviudually (a good idea, sez I). Why not the BoH. Many others (speaking for myself) heve been shown elsewhere, as this is one of my special friends, I think it conceals a great deal of "socialist reality". Here, a documented single of type 4, variety 1, 480486 (1966).

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