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The reverse of the "frack".

Here are some of the individual bars starting with a "frack".

Thank you. Coming from you and the guys above, I'm flattered. Regarding the Japanese medal, do you know how many of these were awarded to Germans and why they would have been? Would the man have been in the navy or foreign service?

I'll try but I've got a job.... : ) Anything in particular that you want to see? Most of these come from dealers and so I've not bid on them. As for the ex-Stogie collection; I must plead ignorance and admit that I don't know who Stogie was. I like groups with tailor tags too so many of these have them. Although not a certainty by any means of making a bar legit, it certainly helps. It's nice to know people appreciate these.

Another tray for the Korean War. I particularly like the Ethiopian group (lower left corner) and the Norwegian pair (upper right corner).

Cheetah Sqd. groups from South Africa are rare as there were only 804 S. African Korean War Service medals awarded.

Commonwealth medals and most of these men supported each other at the imgin.

Belgian, French and Norwegian (top row) Greek, Turkish and S. Korean (middle row) Ethiopian, Filapino and Thai (bottom row) The contingents were small and it's time consuming to put a representative collection togther. The hard ones are Italy, Colombia and India. Columbian and Italian medals for Korea are expensive.

There were only 804 S. African Korean War Medals awarded. There were only 3,972 Dutch who served in Korea. For those interested in Silver Stars, far fewer were awarded for Korea than for Vietnam. The named US POW Medal in the center is quite rare too. To date, only about 4,000 Canadian Korean War Volunteer Service Medals have been claimed and awarded. This PPCLI group has paperwork confirming all three awards.

My father served in WWII and Korea. He was wounded in Korea fighting the Chinese. Although he never talked about it, I became interested in the war and the myriad of medals issued by different countries. Here's a very small collection. Most of the men in this tray were supporting each other at the Imjin. The pair in the upper right and the GSM with Korea pair at the bottom were to men who served and fought with the RUR. They were both prisoners and ended up playing soccer for the winning UK team in the "N. Korean POW Olympics" in 1952.

Top row and from left to right... Dunkirk (Territorial); Dunkirk (Militia - scarce TEM); St. Valery and Greece Bottom row from left to right... Crete, Tobruk and El Alamein. There are ten small lapel badges that were worn by those who supported the PoWs. The first three on the left are WWI and the rest are WWII.

PoW groups are interesting and there is an enormous amount of information and photographs online. Not only did the PoWs see combat, but were also held captive and so had a entirely different story than the bulk of the troops. I thought it would be interesting to get a group for each of the large British surrenders. The first here is for Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941, which consists of a group of 5: 1939-1945 Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal; War Medal; Regular Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVI 2nd type; (4685565 SJT. A. COOKE. M.P.S.C.), mounted loose style as worn. A fine and interesting Second World War Fall of Hong Kong 25 December 1941 Prisoner of War of the Japanese long service group awarded to Sergeant A. Cook, Military Provost Staff Corps, late Military Foot Police, Coldstream Guards, and one time 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army, who having been taken prisoner of war, was incarcerated at Omine in Japan and worked forced labour as a miner. Together with the following quantity of original documentation: Soldier's Service Record and Pay Book, dated 1952; Regular Army Certificate of Service, dated 12 March 1952; Discharge Certificate after his first period of engagement, dated 4 May 1931; Certificate of Proficiency from the School of Instruction Corps of Military Police - as awarded for his attendance on a course from 16 October 1933 to 7 January 1934 - he came 14th on a list of 16; War Office Letter of Appreciation on his retirement from the British Army after 21 years service, dated 1 May 1952; 4 x News of the World photographs of a group of men; Cooke is one of them; another of a group of soldiers drinking beer, taken circa 1920's to 1930's; and individual portrait photograph of recipient; another of soldiers relaxing; and an older photograph, also of a group of soldier's, this annotated but not clearly readable, possibly 1920's; a booklet titled 'Chelsea Pensioners Today; and an exceptionally rare - small print run book - titled The Last Phase at Omine, which is an official late 1940's large format printed booklet printed by The Examiner Press for the Omine Prisoner of War Camp in Japan where Cooke was incarcerated. It contains many printed sketches of the PoW camp during the war. Cooke is listed on page 2 of the British PoW list for Omine and was recorded as being in camp 26 169 and L. Cpl Alfred A. Cooke, 4685565 H. 23.1.18. Alfred Cooke was born in 1907, and originally enlisted as a Private (No.4685565) into the 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army, at Denaby, Yorkshire, on 11th June 1925, but was then discharged at York on 4th May 1931 'in consequence of having joined the Regular Army', as he had joined the Coldstream Guards as a Guardsman. Cooke then saw home service, but pursued a career with the Military Foot Police and attend the School of Instruction for the Corps of Military Foot Police. While attached to this unit, he attended a course from 16 October 1933 to 7 January 1934. It is noted that he represented the Depot Corps of Military Police at Football. Later, he officially transferred into the Corps of Military Foot Police from 4 June 1934, he was then posted overseas to Shanghai and Hong Kong from 14 December 1938, and was still out in the Far East at the outbreak of the Second World War, and on the Japanese declaration of war. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Hong Kong on 25th December 1941, and spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, being incarcerated at Omine Prisoner Camp, and employed on forced labour as a miner, before being liberated on 17 November 1945 after the Japanese surrender, and then posted home from 18 November 1945. Opting to continue in the service, he transferred as a Sergeant to the Military Provost Staff Corps, being awarded the Regular Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, and then being discharged after 21 years service on 16 April 1952. For more information on the mine look at: http://www.us-japandialogueonpows.org/Ominememorial.htm and more with Cooke listed under the British PoWs in http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/fukuoka/fuku_5_omine/fuku_5_omine.html

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_05_2014/post-7116-0-10090700-1399494537.jpg3 RIR, RAAF, RNIR and Canadian ICSC Unfortunately the New Zealander, a Maori, died while serving in Malaya. The file on the man in the 3 RIR is about 40 pages long and includes a nice photo of him training Vietnamese troops.

Forgot the ribbon bar in the previous shot. Again a KM group for Deutschland to Heinz Eissermann. This came right from the vet via someone in Germany and is accompanied by many photos, postcards and his POW papers, which verify all the medals on the bar, the Spanish Cross in bronze without swords and the two badges.

I love those colorful Condor Legion bars.

Eastern Europe, a customs and an interesting frack with a nice tailor label.

Long service medals. Most of the bars have tailor's labels and the pair in the center has an EK2C with a round 3.

The Olympic bar in the center was a present from my wife.

Most likely bars to civilians.

A nice mixture of foreign and some nice standard long service groups. The single West Wall Medal has a nice tailor's label on the reverse.

Nice group to a man (Michael Bissinger) who survived and became a POW.

One of the more interesting trays with some nice enamel pieces and some nice Turkish medals too.

The bar in the lower right hand corner has a TR Life Saving Medal to the left of the Silesian Eagle and it's a Godet bar. : )

A family group to Captain/Dr. Konrad Lambrecht and his wife. There are letters, documents and the orginal certificates for all the medals to both of them.

And more equivalents for the Iron Cross 2C. The top two are Godet bars.