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See if this works. : ) Cheers, jl Here's something else that's recently arrived. Japanese Lacquered Sake Cup (Sakazuki) for the China Incident This is a vintage Japanese wooden lacquered sake cup, sakazuki. It is written as a sake cup that was given to him when he was discharged from the Kanazawa Army Hospital after being injured in the China Incident War. • Japanese wooden lacquered sake drinking cup, sakazuki • China Incident War • Words on the box: Sowa 16. Oct. 5th. Wood cup, Discharged from Kanazawa Army Hospital • Words on the sakazuki: Victory/ Kanazawa Army Hospital/ Commemoration of the China Incident • Wood • Item weight: 35 grams • Packed weight: 235 grams • C1941 • Approx. 9 cm wide x 3 cm tall • Acquired from a home in Gifu, Japan

Hi Tracy, It's a Japanese Labour Badge. Here's an excellent thread on it.

A new addition to my small collection. I'm quite pleased it has its case.

Received today with thanks! Glad to support your hard work, which makes this such an excellent site! Thank you for all you do.

That’s a very nice pair. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Dave, I was thinking the very same. Cheers, John

I came across this on the internet and was wondering if anyone knows anything at all about it. Thanks in advance.

Thanks Nick! I really appreciate it!!! Do most certificates indicate the other medals or decorations that were awarded to the recipient? I am very happy to learn of his other medals. Thanks very much again! John

Hi Nick, Has my green badge been posted yet? Thanks, John

Here are a couple of items that I would very much appreciate any help in translating. The first is for a WWI Campaign Medal and the second is for a photograph with an inscription on the reverse. It appears that the photo is of a young man who was awarded the WWI Campaign Medal who it would seem was in the army as he is wearing a marksmanship badge. Again, any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I agree with Paul. It couldn’t be the Transport either as the clasps were not as thin. Great use of the filter!

I believe it’s the Ashanti.

Thanks very much again!

Thanks! That’s the info I need to know! 😀

Does anyone know anything about this medal? Thanks in advance.

Thanks very much. I have to say that the four other medal bars I have are all tied down so the medals can’t move, and show wear from the post on the reverse of the medal. There is also uniform wear to all the ribbons indicating a long time on the bar. Thanks again! John

Thanks very very much Nick! I thought it might be a combination for a low level government clerk.

Hello again, I appreciate your recommendations very much. As someone who is very ignorant about Japanese Medal bars, why specifically wouldn't you recommend the bar and couldn't hooks become unhooked over time? I'm not questioning the validity of your comments whatsoever, but am trying to see what you see so that I won't make errors in the future. I have read that so very many Japanese medal bars are constructed with real medals, but are fake. The ones I do have I know are not, but Japanese medals and bars are by no means my area of expertise and I would like to know more. Please teach me what you look for and what you know. With all respect. John

Is this a possible and good medal bar? Thanks in advance, and all the best, John

Good morning, All seems to be working splendidly now. Thanks Nick!

I cannot post in some threads. Has becoming a Patron changed my account? Please advise. John

Hello Nick, Have just become a proud patron and ordered a badge. I hope hundreds more will do the same to support this excellent site. All the very best, John

As a patron, I hope you’ll send me a green one as I’ve just ordered one. 🙂.

A beautifully minted medal that must have meant much to those children whose fathers were away. This well designed medal is not often seen available. I don’t know whether there was a case; although I suspect there was. I have not been able to find any articles on the banquet itself, which I would think would have been covered by the press.

I am exceptionally pleased to have acquired this medal to Holt Waring, who was captured at Lindley. Now I have at least one medal to each of the companies present when the 13th Battalion surrendered to De Wet on 31 May 1900. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (9604 Pte. H. Waring, 45th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) Holt Waring served with the 45th (Dublin Hunt) Company, 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War and was taken Prisoner of War at well known surrender of the 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry at Lindley on 31 May 1900. The 45th, otherwise known as the Irish Hunt Company, comprising five officers and 116 other ranks, departed from Dublin for Holyhead on Monday 13 March 1900 on board the steamer Hibernia. There they entrained for Liverpool, where they sailed for Cape Town on board the SS Montrose. Holt Waring, of Waringstown, Co. Down, was born on 26 May 1877, the son of Colonel Thomas Waring and Fanny Waring (nee Tucker). He was husband of Margaret Waring of Waringstown, County Down, and brother-in-law of Lieutenant Samuel Barbour 'Barrie' Combe, also of the North Irish Horse. Having served in the Boer War, Waring was commissioned as a lieutenant on 17 July 1903 and joined the North of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry. In July 1908 he joined the newly-formed North Irish Horse. He was promoted to captain on 6 February 1909 and major on 12 December 1914. Waring had joined the newly formed D Squadron of the North Irish Horse, which arrived in France on 2 May 1915, attached to the 51st (Highland) Division. Later that month he took command of C Squadron of the North Irish Horse, which had been in France since the beginning of the war. On 4 August 1916 Major Waring was attached to the 13th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Major Waring led his men when the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division attacked at the Battle of Messines in June 1917. Two months later he took command of the 13th Rifles when Colonel Maxwell was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele. In November 1917 the 11th and 13th Royal Irish Rifles were amalgamated to form the 11/13th Battalion. When it was disbanded in February 1918 Waring was moved to the 12th Royal Irish Rifles. On 21 March 1918, the Germans launched a massive offensive. The 36th Division, and the 12th Royal Irish Rifles in particular, sustained heavy casualties. The survivors were then sent into the lines in the Ypres Salient in the area around Kemmel Hill, just as the Germans commenced an offensive in that sector. On the night of 12/13 April, Waring led a company of 12th Rifles in a counter attack, along with a company of the 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers led by the Lieutenant Colonel Philip Kelly. Their position restored, dawn brought more determined attacks by the Germans on the trenches held by the 12th Rifles. That attack, and others during the day, were repulsed. At dawn on 15 April, the Germans launched an artillery and infantry attack and broke through on the left flank. Waring led a combined force of the remnants of the 12th Rifles and 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, and though they failed to win back the ground lost, they stopped the German advance. Holt Waring died of wounds sustained during this action. Waring was buried at Lindenhoek, east of Mount Kemmel (map reference 28.N.27.c.9.5). His comrades placed a cross over his grave which read: "In loving memory of Major Holt Waring. 13th Royal Irish Rifles. Attd 12th Royal Irish Rifles. Died of wounds, 15.4.18." After the war his body was exhumed and re-buried at Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave II.E.7. The gravestone inscription reads: MAJOR H. WARING ROYAL IRISH RIFLES 15TH APRIL 1918 Major Holt Waring's 1914-15 Star Trio are on display at the regimental museum. The victory lacks the MID emblem and the death plaque is either not with the Museum or not on display.