Ed_Haynes

The all-too-familiar missing photo page.

Document 2

Hard-cover.

Interior

Back to topic (I suspect whoever got Alexei's various goodies will post their new guests here when they arrive, I know I'll post what I got when I get it -- we are starting to sound like our German-collecting cousins whining about Detlev's updates?! -- the last I saw, he still had the nicest thing and best buy on his update, the interior ministry badge) . . .

Document 2

(Can we number these for ease in reference whan we have a clue what they are and say.)

Starting with mysterious things in bichig.

Can you do a super high-resolution scan of just the date area? It may not help, but we can hope.

Let me squint. I am TRYING with bichig, but it is winning. May have a simnilar one, let me look. I have many such mysteries.

I am trying to persuade a friend who can read bichig EASILY to check in frequently and save us all.

(Do you mind if we hijack the thread for general mystery documents??)

Nice pieces with history. Any plans to research them? Usually nice tales to tell!

Thanks for sharing.

40 mm in diameter

Thanks, even nicer at a visible size!

Nice badge. How large? What size??

Did we annex someone withoiut my knowledge?

No, some of us would just like to undo a historical error. But, then, you might not want us.

Ed,

did comrade Grebenschchikova receive any other medals or orders as listed in Stalin's Order?

Best regards

Christian

Unless there is some duplicate documentation out there that has eluded research (always possible ), this seems to have been her only medal. What I have is in the linked thread.

Not to hijack your thread, Chris, but I thought I'd offer a bit more "eye candy". One for the "first round" and two for the "second and last round".

1- Sutlej Medal - medal for "ALIWAL" with clasp for "SOBRAON", named to "SEP. ____ CHUND. 5th or SIRMOOR RIFLE BATTn" (heavily worn and naming rubbed - what else did he have?!) - for First Sikh War. 1845-46

2- Punjab Medal - "MOOLTAN", named to "PRIvt MATTA BUCCUS 4TH BATTn ARTILLERY."

3- Punjab Medal - "MOOLTAN" and "GOOJERAT", named to "PRIVATE. MAUN SINGH. SCINDE CAMEL. B. C." - in pristine condition, very likely never issues as the camel baggage corps boys were hard to track down after the war

To complete the set (the Itur ha`oz / Valor Decoration is shown above), the:

Itur Hagvura / Heroism Decoration

See: http://www.yairmalachi.org/MedalsOfIsrael/Medal_of_Valor.htm

Itur Hamofet / Medal for Distinguished Service

See: http://www.yairmalachi.org/MedalsOfIsrael/...hed_Service.htm

Interesting, see the solo Order of Glory 3 to First Sergeant A. V. Grebenschchikova.

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2329

Her recommendation:

"When fighting against German invaders Guards First Sergeant Grebenschchikova was among the first to cross in the forging of the River Oder [ca. 22 Jan 1945] and under strong machine-gun and artillery fire rendered medical assistance to 75 wounded. She took 63 heavily wounded persons with their personal weapons away from the battlefield.

"The Guards First Sergeant Grebenschchikova deserves a government award, Order of the Red Banner."

While this award was down-graded to an Order of Glory, it was approved 20 March 1945. The medal, however, was not physically awarded until 28 March 1990. The 23 year old nurse got the award for her deeds when she was 70.

Following this campaign, the first United Nationa peacekeeping force was establish, the Unitedd Nations Emergency Force (UNEF).

While missing one medal ( ), the group to 4436391 Havildar Bachittar Singh, Sikh Light Infantry, with his UNEF medal at the end:

I do not have, alas, either the medal or the image of the Egyptian medal for this campaign, the Nuut al-Nasr / Victory Medal, awarded to commemorate the first anniversary of the foreign evacuation of Port Said (Egypt). The medal was presented to all members of the armed forces and to military students who were serving on 23 December 1958.

Can someone supply?

While we have remembered, elsewhere, the phaleristic aspects of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, we have ignored the Suez Crisis of 1956.

1- Great Britain -- General Service Medal, 1918-62: ?Near East? (the relevant clasp) and "Cyprus" -- named to "23277668 SPR. J. F. COLLISTON, R.E." -- I do not have the corresponding Naval General Service Medal, can someone supply?

2- France -- M?daille d?Orient: ?Moyen-Orient?

3- Israel -- ribbon for the Sinai Campaign, 1956

The book is ABSOLUTELY first rate!

Even those of us in Southern Canada can read it with great interest.

Have to look - a FASCINATING slice of social history, though!!

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9321

A nice one, Christian. Thanks!

Putting this over in the "Coins & Commemorative Medallions" section -- http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showforum=65 -- might get a quicker response, as this is a numismatic medal, not a phaleristic medal. Quite different creatures.

Can someone with God Powers move it?

Did you just buy whichever "class" you could afford?

Was it that simple? That capitalist?? That open to the fantastical interpretation of jewelers' imaginations???

(Like so many other inter-war things phaleristic?)

Nice one. Envy exudes.

So true, Rick: BUKZ IZ ITT!!!

(and welcome back to tha land of the living - and to here too )