Ed_Haynes

Outstanding Worker of Public Service

M 15 (M 14?)

Outstanding Worker of the Ministry of Industry

K 02

Unnumbered.

Outstanding Tade Union Activist

X 24

Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League (MYRL) Pin

V 10

Some sort of international friendship badge (the multi-colored motif on the star?)??

Outstanding Agitator

B 35

You can also have the Archives do it, but the charge 15 pounds for 15 minutes.

They charge THAT much?! Ka-CHING - early retirement here I come . . .

Ed, I went too fast and made a typing mistake : 2003, and not 1994 !!!

So, I'm not the real winner .

Your turn, now ?

Ch.

Oops, me too, unless you count the sanctions . . . . End of semester, brain shut down . . . .

Moreover, let me drag out and post the revenant French medals for the various GWs (Gulf Wars, that is).

Normally, if I remember well, Gulf War 1 was the one between Iran and Irak, that ended in 1989.

Gulf War 2 was between Irak and the Allied Forces (1990-91).

Guilf War 3 was between Irak and mainly the US (1994).

Ch.

Well done, Christophe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I - 1979-89

II - 1990-91

III - 1994----

You win this quiz. Many others flunk.

Will ignore -- I surrender! -- the clumsy terminological problems with Gulf War I, II, and III. I give up!!!!!!!!!!

Ormuz = Hormuz. As in "the Strait of . . . ". For Gulf War I (oh, I was not going to re-open THAT . . .).

No, Gerd, not close, right! Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, GBE, CStJ (n?e Clementine Ogilvy Hozier; 1 April 1885 ? 12 December 1977). Her father (at least he might have been her father) was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class 1870 with oak leaves and her husband (who was her husband) was awarded the Spanish Order of Military Merit. Both awards later became, of course, identified with "the Narzi enemy", directly or indirectly.

I want to see HER gongs! (Oops, can I say that? )

Your turn, Gerd!

The Outstanding Worker of the Mongolia Revolutionary Youth League

B # V 05. One of the first Mongolian medals I even saw, decades ago, in the auction catalogue of a famous (?) West German auction house (infamous for his -- well -- "inventive" Suvorov Orders). Glad to have one now.

Interestingly, numbered: 260.

Yes, it is very quiet . . . ????

Do you (other than Chiistophe) need more hints . . . ????

Or do you care????

A Type 2.3 [corrected]. Really, really ugly.

Type 1, # 00598

And the interior spread:

Outstanding Worker of People's education (could be B # R 04?).

The union membership book (and the problem?). First page seems OK enough (cf. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6043&st=34 and following posts). Photo removed, which is sad. The "dues" pages are all black, which makes me wonder.

The MYRL booklet interior. Photo removed. Paid-up from June 1983 through December 1986.

The badges:

A possible group (see below):

1- Badge of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League (B # V 02)

2- Trade Union of the Workers Membership Badghe (NIB - #17599)

See . . . they MATCH!

Not much of a "group" but -- unusually -- one where the 25 Years of MPR Medal actually matches the document!

(But what has been done to the enameled "ribbon"?!)

And did I (further) neglect to mention . . . cased:

Page 4 (detail)-

Closeup of the worthy - obviously a "foreign aid" haircut.