Ed_Haynes

A really nice thread, thanks! Will start a similar one for US medals (as all my family got thrown out of the UK too early on to gain British awards).

Didn't express myself clearly, sorry: In my photo could (1) the HSL be yet to be awarded or (2) he is just wearing his HSUs and not the HSL. Doubt #2, but #1 seems likely?

Thanks, all. The Wiki-picture seems to show two HSU and one HSL. Would he have worn the first two without the third?

Dave . . . I wish I knew, I wish I knew. I knew #1 (M), was 99% sure on #2 (Z -- from the unmistakable square head etc.), and seek guidance from the Wise on #3, #4, and maybe even the Lesser Folk behind them. Thanks, Ed

M?daille Coloniale: ?Maroc? Awarded for a wide range of French service in Morocco: 1843-47: It is not entirely clear that this medal was retroactively extended for this service, but some sources suggest that the award included actions into Morocco against Abdul el-Qadir from Algeria by the 1er regiment of the Foreign Legion. 1914-25: Replacing the Morroco Campaign's Commemorative Medal, this clasp was awarded for peacekeeping operations between 1914 and 1925. It was also awarded to members of the societies that cared for the military wounded in the area between 20 July 1912 and 31 December 1913 for two consecutive months.

I, for one (only), would love to see them. Ed

Just a few more: M?daille Coloniale: ?Maroc 1925-1926? Awarded primarily for actions against Abd-el-Krim, which culminated in his surrender on 23 May 1926.

This is truly the forum of GENTLEMEN. Good on ya, mate!

Age? What is that. I forget. MTV? I leave that to me teenage daughter. Come to think of it Chris, as your prize, . . . ??? But who ARE the comrades???

A ". . . nubile young russian . . . ."??

A close-up on the figures of interest.

I almost threw this forward as a quiz, but not knowing the answer 100%, I thought that's be unfair. 1- Who have we here? While I know some, my main interest is the the first full person on the left -- no pun intended -- Generalmajor Ewald Munschke (DDR), some of whose medals are in my custody and up on various threads here. 2- What are they up to? What are they celebrating?

"Imperial" Albania??

A friend of mine in college (oops, did I just date myself) got one "awarded" to his father. The certificate wa spretty too. Think it was written up in the JOMSA at the time. Shall look.

Please. Or not at all?

As I recall, this was being "awarded" by the royal "government" in exile in the late 1960s to any veteran of any nation who had served in the European Theatre, just so long as your money order was good. Kind of a "fringe" award? Pretty though?

So, Christophe, your turn now . . . ??

If, on close examination, it seems merely to have fallen off, then replacing the clasp might not be so naughty. Many of the usual dealers (Dixon or Liverpool, for example, and maybe Ursual) stock original clasps. While you don't want to think too much about where they came from, you should be able to "restore" this without too much trouble.

As your first group did not have the overseas clasp on his fulkl-sized medals, I, for one, would be very reluctant to add it. In doing so, you'd be "augmenting" the group to such a degree that you'd be destroying the existing group (and its history) and inventing a new fraudulent group that never existed before in its place. Though, interestingly, he does have one on his miniatures and represented on his ribbon bar . . . ! I had missed that before, hidden in among the haberdashery. He qualified, apparently, but never mounted one with his full sized medals. As they are originally mounted (?), I'd leave them alone.

Very very nice. I'd have to check to see how far east he had to go before being considered "overseas" and, thus, qualifying for the overseas clasp to the CVSM. I'd have thought Iceland counted, but . . . . Can anyone help?

With such a nice medal group, you should really invest in at least one basic reference book, even the much-maligned Medals Yearbook (MYB)! What you have here is: 1- 1939-45 Star (MYB 177) 2- Atlantic Star (MYB 178) 3- Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (MYB 188) - without clasp for overseas service - looks like the chap spent the war doing flights off Canada's coast only 4- War Medal 1939-45 (MYB 186) 5- Canadian Centennial Medal (1967; MYB C27) 6- Canadian Forces Decoration (MYB 255/C32) - awarded for 12 years of examplary service - the bar represents an additional 10 years Is the Canadian Forces Decoration named? Should be. A shame Canada did not name the others, following the faulty British precedent. There was such a desire to get the medals issued quickly that naming was dispensed with (it was not an economy measure, as some assert).

I might cross-reference to this interesting KPM group. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2324 Will put up a few more singletons in case there is any interest.

Sharma's group is with him. In India. I have no idea how the Indian awards were worn, though I'd agree with your guess: separately, on straight suspension (though WWII Soviet awards were certainly forced into Commonwelath wearing styles, even Red Stars and OPWs).

Hope to get a photo of Sharma's group, with Ashoka Chakra, HSU, and Lenin this December or next summer.

OK, I think that is,a s we say in the US, "Close enough for government work." The backup crew for Soyuz T-11 was supposed to have been awarded the Kirti Ckakra (earlier, the second class of a three-class Ashoka Chakra series). Awards of the Kirti Chakra were gazetted in the Gazette of India for Anatoli Nikolayevich Berezovoi, Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, Ravish Malhotra. Indian Ministry of Defence records indicate, however, that when the actual and properly named awards were sent off to the Soviet Union, three Ashoka Chakra medals were sent and only one Kirti Chakra. Berezovoi was bestowed with an accidental Ashoka Chakra, while Grechko got the Kirti Chakra which had been gazetted. The mistake was never fixed. Prize to Christophe!