peter monahan

Good luck with the hunt.  The appeal and frustration of collecting combined!

16 hours ago, Hummern4 said:

Thank you very much Peter! Not sure how to edit my original post. I would like to see the pictures instead of the links. Any ideas?

 

 

You should be able to load pictures by opening a window like this one, whereupon 'Drag files... chose files should appear at the bottom of the window.  Load the files from your own computer.

Morar

Just saw this for the first time.

I suspect, from the look of it that the background is a photographer's backdrop rather than a view of the outside, as was common at the time.  Actual outdoor photos were not very common.

Order of?  Megan?

My understanding, which is admittedly slight, is that the WDC was, like the NAAFI and some other groups, is an 'ancilliary' or 'auxilliary' service of the MoD.  So, while that service might count towards medals, as it did for the NAAFI folks in Iraq/Afghanistan more recently, it is not technically 'part' of the armed forces.

Just my tuppence worth.  The WDC was phased out in 1974.

And everything looks to be in wonderful shape.  Your Troop Sergeant Major would approve!

Welcome to the GMIC.

Peter

His Imperial majesty, the Emporer looks 'if not actually disgruntled, far from being gruntled'!  Well done!

On another forum it has been identified as belonging to the Dutch east Indies forces, as bayern suggests.  No idea about the badge.

A very useful post/thread indeed.  Thank you!

So, presumably, the white stripe is to indicate, when only ribbons are worn, that it IS the lowest of the grades of the order.  Which makes sense to me, as the sort of people who earn such things usually do not want to be mistaken for members of the hoi-polloi if they are in fact nobs of the nobbiest sort!

Nero

30 years ago when I was actively involved in buying medals and badges, the wisdom on the street was that 30- 50% of the WWII German stuff on the market was repro/fake.  I can't imagine that the % has gone down!  No easy answer except to talk to people you trust to be honest and experienced in the field and resist - its very hard! - the urge to buy quickly.

I have no idea whether this is a good one, but there are lots of experts and lots of examples out there.  Here are two sites which m,ay shed a little light on the question.  Good luck with your collecting!

Peter

http://quanonline.com/military/military_reference/german/german_replicas.html

One of the vendors in a large local antique market has an entire case full of 'unique', 'very rare' and 'extremely rare' items.  Two or three of the 30 actually are.  It makes me wonder where all the 'ordinary' and 'common' stuff has got to.   Although in this case the vendor has offered some 'evidence' for his/her claim.  Is the source reliable?  Are there other similar sources?

Oopps!  No offence intended, Egorka!  Some of my best freidns are nerds.

Do you suppose Russian electronic 'warriors' are as nerdy as their Western counterparts?

You may already have guessed or known this, Fahnen, but the rose for English counties was replace by shamrocks for Ireland, thistles for Scotland and the Prince of Wales three plumes for Wales.   So yours is very definitely one of the English counties. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant#Uniform

Good luck with the negotiations.  What a great find!

Below are the ribbons for the campaign medals   identified:General Service Medal, 1947, Paschimi Star, 1971, Samar Seva, 1965, Raksha Medal, 1965, 1971-72, Sainya Seva Medal.  Judging by this area, the officer was a late WWII or just post-war enlistment – GSM 1947 – and served until at least 1971.  Quite a career and clearly ‘at the sharp end’ a good bit, as one would expect from a Gunner.  Shabash, huzzor!

I was going to say the same as Coldstream: Lord Lieutenant of a County in the UK would have been my guess.  Very lovely.

The awarding of rosettes began with napoleon, according to this source and was first done in the US in 1877.  I would have pegged it somewhat later in the UK, as until the late 19th century, full size medals were the norm and decorations worn on civilian dress failry rare, I think.  [https://www.hodgesbadge.com/history-of-rosettes/a/7/]

I don't know anything about the Air medal and multiples, but when Canadian service personnel earned the UN medal for service in Cyprus in the '60-'90s, many were there 4-6-8 times, especially if they were support or signals and we eventually authorized a metal numeral to wear on the ribbon because that many rosettes just looked silly!

OTOH, even 'military' tailors - the chaps who thrive outside any large base -are not actually constrained by the regulations which apply to memebrs of the various armed forces and there are some wild and wonderful things out there on the chests [or walls] of current and former officers. 

And depending on the rank of the wearer, few people qualified or willing to make a complaint, official or otherwise.  The classic example was Lord Montgomery of El Alamein.  When he was serving he typically wore an RTR beret with two badges on it, completely against all regulations and radition.  But who would say him nay?  No one, apparently, as it became his 'trademark'.

My guess would be that Chase lost or never had the appropriate device for his DFC ribbon and requested a tailor to 'fix that', this being the solution.  

My two cents worth!

Now that would be an interesting group!  Nice find!

Most of 'Dada' Amin's medals were self awarded in the latter stages of his leadership.  He joined the KAR post WWII, as a cook, and was with them in Somalia - battling Shufta cattle raiders apparently - but would not, I think, have received any real medals for that.  Rose to the rank of Effendi [Warrant Officer] in the British KAR and eventually deputy commander of the post independence Ugandan Army.

Wikipedia says this of his awards:

After the United Kingdom broke off all diplomatic relations with his regime in 1977, Amin declared he had defeated the British, and conferred on himself the decoration of CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire). His full self-bestowed title ultimately became: "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", in addition to his officially-stated claim of being the uncrowned King of Scotland.  He never received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) or the Military Cross (MC). He conferred a doctorate of law on himself from Makerere University as well as the Victorious Cross (VC), a medal made to emulate the British Victoria Cross.

Getty Images will happily sell you a shot of him wearing all his awards.

Davies

Good on ya, as the Aussies say! 

'BigJarof Wasps posted what look like newspaper photos, so I'd assume he has some clues.  Try sending him a message - click on his name and you can send a private message.  Also try googling the gent on Facebook and social media, though as an ex-NI type that is probably going to be less helpful.  Good luck!

Peter

R.I.P. King Michael.

 A very impressive entry in Wiki, including mention of 11 honoraray degrees!  Good to see that he was accpeted by the modern government and able to make a contribution, without stirring up any unrealisitic hopes for a return to monarchy as a form of geovernment in the country.

Excellent!  Another tidbit of really valuable info. to add to what a former girlfriend called my 'storehouse of mental dross'!

Serioulsy, this sort of thing is why I haunt this site - nowhere else would people know or care about such beautiful and historically important objects.