Ed_Haynes

Thanks, JC!

Yes, you will find a number of Yemeni medals up (and more to come) over at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14992

See some of the threads over here

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=127

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Oops. But at least it is (now) legal to sell.

Actually Lenin is everywhere in Volgograd.

Lucky Stalingrad.

. . . in Volgograd.

Oh . . . Stalingrad

Moscow and Leningrad (oops, St. Whateverburg it is supposed to be now) have pretty much disposed of theirs.

This book is all about researching medals, not uniforms.

But there are many nice photos of medals on their backdrops (= uniforms).

At least "They" haven't knocked him down there.

Sure...but where can I find this book?

To cite (just one) quick example:

http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=13774

There must be others?

This is one of those MUST-HAVE books.

Christian, never rely on Collect Russia for the market prices. Would you pay right now $155 for a Partisan Star 3rd Class?

Ah . . . yes . . . but dealers around the world know the site, and use it to "calibrate" their prices . . . even in Ulanbaatar.

. . . I never managed to get such a documented Glory 2cl & foreign award group for a reasonable price .

Not sure the price was "reasonable", but I am very happy with it. A year from now, though, the price will seem CHEAP.

I was, last night, looking through back issues of the [OMSA and came across a nice article in the November 1982 issue by Janez Svajncer, "The Yugoslavian Commemorative Medal for the Voyage to India and Burma".

Has anyone succeeded to capturing one of these lovelies?

(Does anyone have -- for obvious "crossover" reasons -- a spare one of these that I might "adopt"?)

(There was also in this issue an interesting book review by some guy named "R. J. Lundstr?m". This issue was truly "back in the day".)

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I saw this medal 3 years ago on an auction. The price was 100? at that time...which means, today you'll have to pay at least 150?!

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1 from 1200

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Here it is, at last in my collection

"Spomen medalja na put u Indiju i Burmu" 1954-55.

Sorry for bad pictures:

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From the same time and the same event.

Thanks, Eddie. It is good to see you -- and your wisdom -- here!

PaulR,

My area of expertise is Full Cavaliers of the Order of Glory. I need to check my references, however, concerning possible "double" Full Cavalier winners i.e., Saint George Cross for Bravery and the Order of Glory.

There are documented instances of Soviet enlisted men who were awarded the Saint George Cross during World War I who were later awarded the Order of Glory during the Great Patriotic War. I am aware of one such case wherein an enlisted man was awarded two classes of the Saint George Cross for Bravery and later was awarded two classes of the Order of Glory - a double double if you will.

Not all enlisted men of World War I who were Saint George Cross winners went on to become officers. The vast majority were demob'ed after that war only to be remob'ed during the Great Patriotic War. It's not as much of a dream as Ed suggests.

Regards,

slava1stclass

Thanks, "slava". These are groups to dream of seeing (or even to get the names and have the research pulled, just to flesh out the tale).

Unfortunately, most of what we see are the "career" tyypes, and you right to remind us of the more invisible "short-timers".

I assume the wearing of the St. George Cross and Medal was an exception to a more general ban on wearing the orders? Although I still think you'd have to be pretty brave, or pretty stupid, to wear even these in the 1920s or 1930s?

Junior officers were eligible for it too, at least I thought they were.

Yes (up to junior lieutenent), but could someone who was a Civil War veteran still have been a junior officer by 1943?

Amazing photos! Thank you all for the clarification. One thing that I have noticed is that I do not see any photos of men who were enlisted in BOTH WW1 and WW2. Would that not be the most amazing group! Someone who was a Cavalier of both awards?? Not completely out of the realm of possibility! He could be in his early 40s!

Paul

But I'd think if he'd been in WWI, he'd have become an officer by the GPW and, therefore, ineligible for the Glory. Though it is an interesting thought/dream.

To get us back on (toward) topic, let me share the group that recently came to live with me. To Jr. Sgt. Artyom Semenovitch Ivakhnenko.

See http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19792 for more.

Fascinating pictures. Makes me think about the tank commander in the fine film The Beast. "Tank Boy."

Interesting question, and interesting answer. I suspect these men and their medals weren't very popular in the years immediately following the revolution, even for those who joined the Red Army. (As far as those who were Whites, . . . well here's a little bullet for you.) Surely, by the end of the GPW, these old Tsarist medals became more public, crawled out of teh closet, as the old wounds had healed with the victory. Stalin had also led the institution of a range of medals named after old feudal Tsarist heroes (Suvorov, Ushakov, etc.) and even the reincarnation of the cross of St. George as the Order of Glory. I wish we knew more about this change in policy and attitudes over time toward the medals of the old r?gime.

Thanks Ibrahim and Megan!

Do we really WANT to encourage and reward the fakers by giving them our money?

All of these are in the thread on medals of Syria.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14267

From the info I have, it looks like this Feldpost Number (35371), was used by a number of sub-units within Heeres Flakartillerie Abteilung 282 from March to September 1942 then by units of Artillerie Regiment 160 which was annihilated at Stalingrad.

Thanks, Gordon. Based on the evidence in the letters, it wwas suspected to be Stalingrad and this confirms it.

Many things can be found on http://www.abebooks.com/ that you never expected to find.