Ed_Haynes

Interesting. -- No WWII war medal. Makes one wonder if the 1939-45 Star was self-awarded? A possible, but unlikely set. -- The final uniform-coloured ribbon would have been used to hold a mention-in-despatches device or, as seems more likely given the group, a King's Commendation for Brave Conduct (rather a rare beast), though this would often have been added onto the Defence Medal. Nice.

To date, the lowest number that has been recorded for the Medal "We Won" is 111. Personally, the lowest number I have is 904 in the group to Lieutenant-General Damdin Tserenjav. You also may want to glance at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10216&st=01 for information on this and the other Battushig "A" medals.

Good point. But I think his suit is long lost anyway on the left side, why not trash the right too? Seems to be still living?

Thanks.

This may be but this is a nasty machine translation of his bio on that site. So probably NOT him in your photo.

Oh, yeah, the ribbons . . . .

Thanks, Marc. For more on him, see http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7303 The nasty/computer translation of his bio divulges:

Yes, the shelf-o-clutter . . .

I also find this interesting in showing the sorts of tchotchkes that could infest the Soviet workspace.

No identification information, but the expression is .

He seems to be wearing the ribbon for his War Cross first? No naming of other ID on the photo (though he is with two friends, no useful details on either so they got cropped out).

Another Czech HSU, 21 December 1943 (medal #2854). A nasty translation of http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1553

ID confirmation needed on what I thinbk is the Czechoslovak Medal for 20th Anniversary of Slovak Uprising of 1944. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7532...88879&st=35

Reverse.

An interesting photo of the Friendship Medal in wear (by a Soviet friend). He also seems to be wearing the Czechoslovak Medal for 20th Anniversary of Slovak Uprising of 1944?

Naming on reverse.

A well decorated Soviet officer with what seems to be the Korean Liberation Commemorative Medal (Choson Haepang Kinyom Chang).

And the Authority Figure, standing left with briefcase prominently displayed, wears two badges.

Some of the boys wear a badge.

Does the banner tell us anything? (Other that the obvious exhortation as to what the workers of the world ought to be doing.)

One more interesting group photo. At least I think it is interesting and says much about the era. All boys, just the one girl.

There were also a lot of late GPW awards.

Please post what you have. A shame there is (and probably never will be) any archival conformation.

In this period, I think, the tinsel star would still be the normal award and you could have a metal star made (which, of course, your family would not need to return).

If awarded to an Indian royal (or their extended family), the families were allowed to purchase the badge at cost. It is not clear whether this policy was ever explained to London. Likewise, anyone who still had the breast badge in 1917 was supposed to have the badge converted or could purchase (at cost) a new neck badge (and this neck badge would the one that would be returned). When the CSI was created (along with the KCSI) in 1866 (five years after the order had been creasted as a single-class "great order" along the lines of the Garter, Thistle, or St. Patrick), it was limited to just 100 members at any time, half Indians and half Euroipeans (and half those Europeans had to be reasiding in England, so the order would have some "home visibility"). While these numbers would expand modestly over time (to 225 total by 1939 when the war meant that issues like this would be ignored and awards would be relaxed -- the flood gates would open -- for the war years, there could be 10 civil CSIs per year and 2 military awards), the clear intent was for this to remain an exclusive order (with the CIE added as a less exclusive single-class low order in 1877 and sprouting the higher classes in 1886 and 1887). After independence, the High Commission gave up on the policy of retrieving awards to Indian recipients on their deaths, while they continued to retrieve (and destroy) awards to Europeans.