Ed_Haynes

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Let me add some images from summer 2006.

Actually, the order is correct. The "Palestine" clasp is for pre-war service. Post-war service is the "Palestine 1945-48" clasp.

Think (in US terms): ROTC/JROTC?

There have been a number of very good, very well-researched, articles on this topic on the OMRS journal. Sometimes, you just gotta READ.

Haved asked fairly senior friends in the MoD but they don't understand the NCC (either). And, yes, they are quite shameless (and laughable) at Republic Day.

'Soviet" obviously didn't go in, as the same home and garden exhibit sill seems underway (as it was when I was there in summer '06), with all the space stuff gone to foreign and domestic capitalists. Nice space shuttle pub near Gorky Park, though. The ghosts of the Soviet space program are there (as they are throughout the bleaching bones of the sad VDNKh site), maybe, but the vampires of crass multinational consumer capitalism have driven then away and sucked them quote dry. I do think the victory is "Soviet"'s though.

The name is sufficiently common so as not to allow much research (I know four Kiran Malhotras in Delhi without thinking too much about it), still . . . any medal to a woman!

No not NOT a fake. Just a good deal. As a "faculty" member it would be the gora "Mrs." rather than the legitimate "Srimati" ("Smt."). Who knows who she is/was.

Ah . . . but the VDNKh Space Pavillion has been emptied, all has been sold. The question is invalid!

Shall dig out some photos and add. A nice place, but too close to that Peter Monstrosity (who moved the capital OUT OF Moscow after all!).

These are for university-level faculty-officers ("F-O") who serve as NCC instructors (think: civilian ROTC instructors?). The NCC is complex and messy, worse than ROTC. Now need to find out how to translate "NCCJ-GD". There's also a 14-year NCC gong.

Have they EVER responded to communication from ANYONE (even in FRENCH?)?

Ohhhh . . . I think I know this . . . I think I know this . . .

OK, they almost always win. Almost always. A simple National Cadet Corps seven year service medal. Rs. 200 (=~ US $5). Naming? "NCCJ-GD-12110 F-O. MRS. KIRAN MALHOTRA, NCC". Mrs. Mrs. Mrs! Tee hee.

Thanks. Maybe these links ought to be copied up into something pinned? Hint, hint to the Central Committee Comrades??

As Jeff says, this is exactly the way you expect to see WWII British (term used specificlly) groups. The total lack of naming (done not for reasons of costs as some have argued, but rather for speed in issuing medals) produces massive problems and limited research potential. Even when you have a group that comes with documents and other paperwork, you can't ever be 100% certain that these are this person's medals unless you have an iron-clad provennce (and by this I mean personal knowledge of the chain of custody from the recipient to yourself and not some tall tale concocted by a dealer). This means that WWII British awards are, uncharacteristically, more like German or other Continental awards than like normally named British awards: Unnamed assemblages of medals that are not really much more than a sum of the parts, something could so easily have been invented (and so often are invented). Even the presence of one or two named medals doesn't help much, for there is always the danger of later accretions to the 'group'. Very frustrating for research!

I have had very good luck (and shall soon be sharing this good luck on this sub-forum) with Singidunum Online. http://www.singidunum-online.com/shope/ind...tegory_secID=36 Marko is a great guy and very easy to deal with. He may not live 24/7 online the way we do, but he has been a great help. I had forgotten, but he had helped me out way back in the days of the Internatioonal Electronic Phaleristic Encyclopedia (before it got trashed by vandals in the post-11 Sep outbreak of US patriotism) -- and if you can recember the IEPE, you have clearly been doing this TOO LONG!

Thanks Dave. Mongolia seems to have warned to peacekeeping, though with shrinking size of overall military force, it happens as small-to-microscopic units.

Possibly, but his medal is for Liberia (UNMIL -- http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/medals/unmil.htm -- where no Mongolian forces are shown), not Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL/UNAMSIL -- http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/medals/unomsil.htm -- where no Mongolian forces are shown either). .

An interesting group, and very much worth researching, especially with the MSM. He surely went through some times, first in the Great War and then, later, in Iraq where things were as bad as they are today. Some things don't change. In India, the very ribbon for the GSM associated with Iraq became, by the late 1920s and early 1930s, an object of terror and recruiters going out to snag new soldiers were told to take it off when they went to villages lest the locals spy the ribbon and hide their sons away out ot reach. WWI ribbons were OK, and would actually help in recruiting, but not THAT ONE.

Well done, Tony! It is amazing and inspiring how research can breathe history and life into a dead chunk of metal and cloth. Thanks for posting this.

They (like other dealers) also very often link the wrong images to their text. I must assume this is what happend here. When you get some pre-pubescent computer geek doing your websites, . . .

So, to summarise (and working from my favorite site on Polish awards -- yours, Lukasz!): Order of Combat Valor 1- POLAND - Polish Army Medal (Medal Wojska Polskiego) in silver 2- POLAND - Multinational Division Central-South Commemorative Medal (Medal pamiatkowy Wielonarodowej Dywizji Centrum-Poludnie) - unofficial commemorative 3- UNITED NATIONS - UNMIL (United Nations Mission in Liberia) - where I was unaware Mongolians had been deployed??!! 4- The Mongolian medal for overseas/peacekeeping operations, but who knows what the proper name is. 5- Unknown Mongolian. While I have both the badges (above his right pocket and below the medals), they have so far eluded identification (well, I've never asked -- shall do so now ).