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B 46 -- Outstanding Worker of the Irrigation Sector of the MPR

N 15 -- The Border Guard Construction Unit As these confusing numbered units go, note that this is unit "0119". For whatever that is worth.

N 21 -- 70 Years of the Great Construction (1926-96)

B 52 -- Veteran of Democracy

B 51 -- The Order of Freedom, Justice, and Unity of the Social-Democratic Party of Mongolia

B 49 -- The Order of the Eternal Sky of the Mongolian Democratic Party

B 33 -- The First Unit of the MPRP

B 23 -- 15th Conference of the MPRP

B 18 -- The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

B 19 -- The Honorary Badge of the MPRP

B 21 and B 22 -- Veteran of the MPRP While this has been shown before, a side-by-side comparison of the two types may be of some use.

J 29 -- Volunteer Herder Hard to scan and perhaps even harder to describe. The 31 x 20 mm badge has, as backing, a 2-mm think metal plate. The top two-thirds (or so) of the badge are overlaid by a 20 x 20 mm piece of green stone (jadeite?) that is 2.5 mm thick; into/onto this, the gilt animal head is placed.

J 26 -- The Outstanding Plougher

J 42 -- Outstanding Hunter of the MPR Already shown, but here are three different types/varieties. FYI on the sorts of manufacturing variations that can be seen.

J 39 -- Agricultural, Mechanical, and Technical Institute

J 52 -- The Outstanding Worker of the Wood Sector

J 38 -- First State Conference of Collective Farmers, 1963

Right now, research options for individuals are limited (except for officers and JCOs). It is hoped that, within a couple of years, whatever records have survived the working (?) bureaucracy of the Ministry of Defence will have been centralised in protective hands. For regiments/battalions, there are more research options (what was this guy's UNIT up to?). But, being artillery, little joy here. I will check to see if, by chance, he was KIA.

While the whole range of "prize" medals are badly unappreciated, they are also hurt by the pro-military bias that exists within phaleristics. While killing Hitlerites is (surely) a worthy act, so is teaching little children? A lovely medal, Christian!

Having called together the "mob", I have but so far just one datapoint to contribute, but, maybe, an interesting one. Polar Star type 3.1, #1217. Documented, awarded 3 December 1955. Same recycling from the Medal for Combat/Military Merit but this is showing the last two characters from the second line of text.

N 09 -- The Outstanding Construction Worker

S 33 -- The Prize-Winner of the Mongolian Journalists' Union

K 21, K 22, and K 23 -- The Glory of Labor, gold, silver, and bronze

Fantastic! Thanks, Christophe!!

See, please, the main thread on police badges. I do not have the power to merge threads, sorry. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10182