Ed_Haynes

Very little is available on the ODM of Sudan, but some scraps exist online:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/sudan.html

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=715

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Africa/Sudan/Sudan.htm

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasaf.htm#s where there are FOUR (!) pages on Sudan (!!!)

Nothing published of much value, but a few online sources:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/djibouti.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/djibouti/djibouti.htm

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Africa/Djibouti/Djibouti.htm

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasaf.htm#d and click on Djibouti

Well, "Arab" in so far as they are a member of the Arab League. Limited sources, though something might exist in French. A bit is online:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/comoros.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/comoros/comoros.htm

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Africa/Comoros/Comoros.htm

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasaf.htm#c and click on Comoros (two pages)

Some online sources, but not a lot, and much more needed:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/bahrain.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/bahrain/bahrain.htm

http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Bahrain/bahrain.htm

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Asia/Bahrain/Bahrain.htm

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=607

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasas.htm#e and click on Bahrain (under "Arab Emirates"?!)

To establish the thread with some sources, none very good.

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/algeria.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/algeria/algeria.htm

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=650

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasaf.htm#a and click on Algeria

There may (must?) be some published things in French?

Sources on Mauritanian ODM? We should be so lucky. Start with:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/mauritania.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/mauritania/mauritania.htm

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=714

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasaf.htm#a go to page 3 of the general Africa material

That's all folks.

Medal C?mmemorative du Liban, 1926 / Commemorative Medal for Lebanon, 1926

Sometimes shown as a French medal, but actually a medal of the protectorate ("puppet") government in Lebanon.

Awarded only to French troops who assisted in the creation and maintenance of a Lebanon separate from Syria in opposition to the Druze rising of 18 July 1925 and who defended the new State from the invasion from Syria in 1926 (leading to repeated bombardment of Damascus). By June 1927, peace had been restored. The medal was not awarded to Lebanese troops.

This medal is sometimes recorded as French award, though it was actually awarded by the government of Lebanon (albeit a Lebanon under intimate French sponsorship and manipulation).

Established: 9 March 1926. A French decree of 16 June 1927 granted the right to wear the medal in French.

Obverse: Circular bronze medal, 30 mm. An upright palm branch with crossed swords at the base. The incuse legend in both Arabic and French on the right and ?POUR LE LIBAN? on the left. The first variety of the medal is suspended from a ring. A later (and more common) version (shown) is suspended from an ornamental straight-bar suspender with olive branches and the inscription ?LIBAN" in French and Arabic.

Reverse: A mountain scene with setting sun and the date ?1925?.

Ribbon: Red with six medium blue stripes.

As with almost all other Arab ODM, sources are QUITE thin for Lebanon, and we are stuck with a few online fragments.

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/lebanon.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/lebanon/lebanon.htm

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=617

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Asia/Lebanon/Lebanon.htm

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasas.htm#l and click on Lebanon

Though Jordan is a major state, with many awards, and close ties to the UK, we still don't have good sources. A shame.

Online things:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/jordan.html

http://www.medals.org.uk/jordan/jordan.htm

http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Jordan/jordan4.htm

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Asia/Jordan/Jordan.htm

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=616

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasas.htm#j and click on Jordan

PEOPLES' DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Military Service Medal

Extremely tentative identification.

PEOPLES' DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Medal for the War of Liberation

Apologies for another naked medal.

PEOPLES' DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Medal for Courage

Apologies for the naked medal.

PEOPLES' DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Order of War Wounded

PEOPLES' DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Order of the 22nd of June

Commemorates the Nationalization Day, 22 June 1971.

Obverse: A 77-mm five-pointed gilt star with rayed points between each of these points; inside a plain surrounding rim, the star is rayed. In the center, a white-enameled scroll with the legend in gilt ?22 Yoonyoo? or ?22 June?. Behind this, an upright gilt torch and, below, the PDRY arms in enamel inside a green-enameled wreath. Worn around the neck.

Reverse: Plain, with two lugs for attaching the obverse plaque.

Ribbon: 30 mm, seven equal 4-mm stripes, black white, red, medium blue, white, red, black; ??mm white stripes surround the central blue stripe.

ARAB REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Medal of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Revolution of 26th September

To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1962 Revolution.

In addition to the medal, there is a rather distinctive silver enameled pinback ribbon bar associated with the award, 35 mm x 6 mm, divided into three enameled bands (5? mm, 9 mm, 5? mm) of (left to right) red, white, and black. In the center of the central white band is a black cicled with a five-pointed green-enameled star on a silver background bearing the silver number ?25?.

Established: 1987? May have been manufactured by ECC Group GMBH (K?ln, Germany)?

Obverse: A 40 mm circular silvered medal, within a starburst border with a scroll at the bottom with an Arabic inscription, a hand with a raised torch with Arabic inscription to left and right. Suspended by a ring from a silver pinback brooch bar, 40 mm x 13 mm, bearing the fully vocalized Arabic inscription ?The Arab Republic of Yemen?.

Reverse: A three-line Arabic inscription.

Ribbon: 36 mm, red, white, and black stripes with a thin central stripe of green; red 10 mm, white 7 mm, green 2 mm, white 7 mm, black 10 mm. As described above, the ribbon hangs from an ornamental suspender with an Arabic inscription.

ARAB REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Order of Service

Military award.

Established: By Resolution No. 1 of 2 January 1973.

ARAB REPUBLIC OF YEMEN -- Order of Duty

Military award. Also referred to as the ?Medal of Duty?.

Established: By Resolution No. 1 of 2 January 1973.

Nice ribbon bar!

Phaleristically and politically, Yemen is a bit of a patchwork mess and keeping track of who issued what when will drive you to

No good sources, but basic online references:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/yemen.html

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=554

http://www.netdialogue.com/yy/Asia/Yemen/Yemen.htm

http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/cintasas.htm#y and click on Yemen

http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Yemen/yemen.htm

Nice thread, Dave. Many thanks for the work.

Though I'm not sure it doesn't belong over in http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=173 ????

I am not sure where the Ottomans are placed is a good idea, but it is better since they started out as no more than a subset of the Germans, just because they -- trapped in the 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' box -- wound up on the losing side in The Great War.

Thanks, Dave. I has always thought the "sunburst" was the obverse, but now I am confused.

Ed, by "Turkish" do you mean Turkish, as in Turkish Republic? I note that in the forum, "Turkish" is generally (and erroneously) used synonymously with "Ottoman." Of course, even the Ottomans weren't averse to making that error, since ethnic Turks dominated the Empire.

I can start a thread on Turkish Republic medals with what information I have. Unfortunately, other than one ribbon bar, I don't have any Turkish decorations of my own, just Ottoman.

Yes, Dave. It is a distinction that (in shorthand) I try to make in my teaching too. The adversion to awards that the Republic represents was in interesting distinction to the Imperial practices. Although it seems that, these days, the Turks have followed other NATO chums into a massive profusion of awards.

Any information would be welcomed.

Thanks, Gerd!!

Yes, Ottoman awards are nice. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=165

Turkish medals are fewer and information is more elusive.

here is a picture of the Management merit medal-as awarded to the volleyball coach (it's exactly the same as the one awarded the scientists:

also see this interesting tidbit(s) from Iran's IT company. I suspect it's not a real medal-as it resembles the ARCOM way too much-I think it's just a clever photoshop image.

AMAZING -- US Army Commendation Medal reincarnated.