Ed_Haynes

And the relevant parts of the mass catch-up recommendation.

Reverse.

Record card obverse.

Need a lot of help. For an unnumbered gallantry medal. You know what they look like. Document.

There was a VERY good series of articles in JOMSA some time back. Can seek references.

Non-Nazi efforts would be nice. Have some Soiviet candidates?

Probably a highly intersting tale running there, back behind the number, and RESEARCH is indicated. If you should live long enough, given recent "research" ressults and turnaround! A nice order, the lowest of the CCCP "Tsarist Heroes" awards to mean much. (I certainly don't count the "Glory".)

TRAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice. I was distantly involved in helping friends at the USI-I and UK High Commission in New Delhi get this pieced together. I have been interviewed by them for a couple of their other shows.

More properly Qajar (than "Ghajar" - where'd THAT come from?!). Sort of distant cousin of the "Lion and Sun". On the arts and sciences order, see: http://web.archive.org/web/20071102192158/...Orders/ilmi.htm On the L&S, see: http://web.archive.org/web/20071102192203/...ers/lionsun.htm Buyers' site is, alas, offline. He has/had good information.

Interesting. Any details on the Gazette of Pakistan notification?

Nice. Combat in two wars and 20+ years of service. Wish service records were available . . . .

Wow! Your wife should educate my wife. But, then, it is probably a very VERY bad idea that wives of "folks like us" should never meet. I have seen it happen. Not pretty. They compare notes. (Unless they, themselves, also collect!)

It is amazing how easy it is to please the research-addicted. Others don't/won't get it (ever)! They just want their STUFF.

True, I think the 1939-43 Star (=> 1939-45 Star) was eventually extended to cover Dunkirk, though Churchill aggressively opposed it (feeling that medals shouldn't be given out for defeats).

Interesting. Rick's suggesting is tempting. What is the size?? Oh, 5.5 cm, reakllky really big

Just go to the SAGongs website. So far, we have had, I think, five reunifications!

Nice one. Somehow, I vaguely recall seeing his medal group come across the market a few years back.

Actually, I don't see anything wrong with the order of the ribbon bar, just the curious absence of the War Medal (on which I accept Ralph's theory). The whole order of wearing issue was, I thinbk, just wandering (but fun).

Absolutely! It is always sad (or worse) to see groups or ribbon bars forced into an order of wearing (or, for that matter, style of wearing) that was not in use during the period. While it is scarcely from from problems, Tuson's Medals will be Worn should live close at hand.

Yes, Enzo, that was my thought too. To what degree were the Yugoslav provinces allowed to create their own, parallel, awards? Most States take a dim view of this sort of thing.

What "Macedonian nation" (= "Macedonian State"?) are we talking about?

As usual, Ralph may be answering it. So a narrow chronology for this ribbon bar (why it is so pristine?).

Thanks for the image! But what is it? Speaking for myself, knowing it is a "ILINDENSKA SPOMENICA" tells me nothing.

A single Defence Medal is common (Home Guard and such), a 1939-45 Star, DM, and War Medal trio is quite common, a DM and WM pair is quite common, a 39-45 and DM is distinctly odd. But this is possible, given the complexities of the WWII medals which were far greater than the regulations reflect (and those creating the regulations at the time knew this even as they wrote the rules). And, in some ways, this would be less confusing if the Order of the British Empire (no way to know which class, but the width suggests to me a CBE) were civil rather than military. Chronologically, I think the DM came along AFTER the WM (I'm talking decisions, not formal Army Orders), so it doesn't seem to be a matter of chronology. If it were only the 1939-43 (later 1939-45) Star and a ribbonless MiD, we could easily give ths ribbons a date. These ribbons, I think, tell a very interesting tale! And I do love puzzles, even if !