Ed_Haynes

A very nice cavalier group has come up from New Jersey. $26K . . . http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=19569

Speechless.

Yes. He is well covered in other threads.

And, for me, too hard to pay for (not only because my bank got sold off today).

Nice thread. Thanks . While I them, I don't have any (setting aside their Mongolian "cousins").

Wow, nice!! Looks like: 1- Ottoman, Order of Mejidie; Egypt, Order of the Nile; Egypt, Khedive's Star; Egypt, Khedive's Sudan (4? clasps); United Kingdon, Egypt Medal (1 clasp) 2- Sudan, Khartoum Star (?!?); Egypt-Sudan, Khedive's Sudan (first variety); Egypt-Sudan, Khedive's Sudan (ssecond variety) My guesses . . . .

A very nice medal indeed. While most collectors would denigrate it as being to a non-European, Folks Like Us find it even more interesting. Nice.

Not THAT particular one . . . .

While I might quibble with aspects of James' highly Anglo-centric survey, he touches the main points and Jagan's IAF site at Bharat Rakshak is first-rate. You may also want to check out: Rana T. S. Chhina, The Eagle Strikes: The Royal Indian Air Force, 1932-1950 ([New Delhi]Centre for Armes Forces Historical Research, United Service Institution of India, [2006]; ISBN 81-903591-0-X). Don't be distracted with his marvelous photos, the text is quite professional and valuable too. I think it is available through the Bharat Rakshah bookstore.

Yes, as Rick knows well, most of what is out there -- especially in the public arena -- ignores the complexities and, moreover, embraces the perspective of one of the two inheritors (and over-simplifier) of those compex events: The Nazis or the DDR. And, as this discussion shows, even contemporary amateur historians selectivbely embrace one view or the other (here, usually the Nazi view) and still celebrate some of the maniacal slaughter that took place in what verged on a German Civil War. I always find it strange how flexible people can be, simultaneously embracing the "defenders" of the German Republic but the destroyers of the Spanish Republic.

Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG = God calls Me God). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St_M...l_and_St_George http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/un...-kingdom011.htm

Thanks.

1966-87 - the blue, red, green, white flag 1987-2006 - the white, blue, green, gold flag 2006-- - the blue, white, green, black flag (from October 2006) See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ls.html

Very nice. The sort of complete group that we have all been hoping to see!

Always learning here too. (Even if the news may be "not so good". But with no reliable sources these days . . . .)

Good point, Rick. But, speaking frankly, I have no interest at all in empowering [the show me] the "war booty" uniformed crowd. Silence is golden. I am almost glad that my Iraq Medals website is now dead and that the volumes of regulations I got from now-dead friends in immediate pre-"liberation" Iraq lie (mostly) untranslated on the shelves. Someday, maybe, . . . . Similar fantasy/fake/lunatic stuff/garbage is coming out of occcupied Afghanistan.

Fascinating, Megan. Thanks!

Complete and total garbage to be flogged to the ignorant occupying forces.

Well, the "squiggles" can be read. And, you of all people. say this, spending your non-family-reunion free days pfutzing-about in pre-1918 German medal rolls written in scribble-scrawls in no known human language?? Ha! Us as knows and has the books (with their goofy caption translations) knows what Chinese things are (mostly) real. Someday, there may be a book in barbarian-speak. Tee-hee.

Thank you . . . er . . . uum . . . what was your name . . . Rick?

Or . . . in one of those times my (ever delicate) teenaged daughter would call a "brain fart" . . . . WHAT IS THIS?!?!??!? I know. I know I should know. But . . .

So much crap now seems to be concocted these days for sale to the idiots in the occupying forces that it seems to be worth stopping collecting Iraqi ODM (as I have done since 20 March 2003). (I write this without seeing many of the previous posts, sorry.)

Not to grant you problems, Paul, but what does the real case look like?

Try: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12023 http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20486 When you get The Answer, please let me (us?) know. Personally, I am now thinking in terms of http://www.anytimeproducts.com/meg/flat_fi...s_and_maps.htm#

Medal of Competence / M?daille de la Comp?tence / ميدالية الجدارة