Ed_Haynes

Add to this the fact that, as I understand the law, veterans (or families of veterans) who sold their (or their ancestor's) medals have done so in violation of the law. And, so, are we then accessories to criminal action? Receiving stolen goods after they pass through a "fence" or two does little to excuse the crime. Stolen goods are still stolen goods? In part, this explains the fact that most Soviet awards that you could find in the late 1970s, had the serial numbers carefully obliterated. Done to disguise the implicit crime? Previous threads like this have been closed down, though, so . . .

This was pretty well addressed, I think, in the sibling posting: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10348

Acting Lance Dafadar Sadhu Singh, ASC (AT) While it includes post-1947 items, it may be of interest here anyway? All properly named, of course.

Havildar Nand Singh, 15th Punjab Regiment All properly named.

I shall henceforth ignore this thread. Thank you.

The same!

The National Order of Merit -- I am told (grin) that a very nice book will soon be among us on this fascinating order.

Quite lovely, thanks, Guy. I may be one of the few to mourn the passing of most of these awards and their amalgamation in the Blue Monster.

Very nice. Though I must say I wish people would post images on the forum, rarther than on some image hosting service that is very slow and usually tries to infect any computer that goes there with spyware.

Darrell - sent PM - would advise avoiding e Bay on these, though most good dealers will have a few. Still quite rare on the market. Give it a few years, by which time everyone will have gotten one and we're into the second generation (like the "Northern Ireland" clasp).

Thanks, Peter, I had a vague and distant memory along the same lines. But, these days, I can no longer trust all these vague and distant memories. In any case, the goat clearly has NOTHING to do with the medal.

Thanks for this thread! I might add that there was supposed to have been a Hindi version of the UN Korea medal, for the Indian troops that served there. That service was so controversial, that the manufacture of the medal was stopped and receipt of the medal disallowed (though some bad boys wore the ribbon). Efforts are now underway to produce the medal and award it, long after the service, to the survivors or next-of-kin of the 60th Para Field Ambulance Unit (not the NNRC people, who would not have earned this medal anyway). Let me dig out and post some imaged of medals that are shown here only in scans from books . . . .

Serbia, for the Albanian Campaign, the retreat to Albania 1915. See: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.ph...big&cat=627

Cross reference: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10216&st=1

A more normal view of this lovely medal . . . .

Thanks for these. As for almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, we know so little, need to know so much!

And a fourth award, # 3. I really have my fingers crossed over the future research possibilities of this one.

Two new additions, interesting mostly for the serial numbers (which, with long screw-posts, may not scan well -- do I need to drag out the camera?), which arelow enough to fall within the "probably awarded" ranges (unlike most of what we see!). When/if research becomes available, . . . . First, a third award, # 5. This one is cased, and a larger and more solid case than we are used to.

There are usually rolls of Royal Victorian Order awards for various foreign junkets by bored British royals. I have the ones for trips to India. Finding these could help, though they do not give numbers.

I doubt this was a real signature. But they do appear on all patents for orders of knightbood. I have a nice OBE parchment with signatures of "George R" as king-emperor and of "Mary R" as grand master (mistress?), the whole "R" family, less the "little-Rs".

I have some from the government side, but there'll be much less interest in those, I suspect . . . .

These are interesting, and do surface from time to time. There are also letters "from" Queen Mary. While I doubt they personally took the time to write these, they are interesting items from the Great War.

That is a troubling comment to which I take offense. If there is faking in play here, it is clearly done by EUROPEANS, not Asians. I have several opinions, but only a few on the medal.

Yes, we are well reminded that we need to talk about: Slicing Iraq from the Ottoman Empire and the Iraqi Resistance (Gulf War 0?), 1919 (or earlier)-58 Iran vs. Iraq (Gulf War I), 1980-88 U.S. and allies vs. Iraq (Gulf War II), 1990-91 U.S. and allies vs. Iraq (Gulf War III), 2003-???? Do we need to put up separate postings on each and not confuse them?

Some has been shared, some will soon be shared, some may take longer to share. I will say that the forum seems to have gone quiet, with many previously regular contributors gone away. Off on late summer holidays, or . . . ?? Not interested in making this a monologue . . . .