Chris Boonzaier Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Military Medals.Does anyone have any ideas as to how many French soldiers in WW1 received the Military Medal?ThanksChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFloyd Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Abbott and Tamplin states 2472 awards to French recipients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 British Decorations conferred on the allied and associated Armies as at 15 May 1920 MM France 3288 Russia 862 Italy 1294 Belgium 462 Japan 70 Montenegro 6 Serbia 276 Roumania 184 Portugal 76 Greece 140 USA 417 Czech. 320 Total 7389medal from my collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 DCM France 2111 Russia 973 Italy 858 Belgium 273 Japan 50 Serbia 147 Roumania 93 Portugal 2 Greece 36 USA 118 Czech. 290 Total 4957 "My" group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Were those awarded to allied countries named?Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Were those awarded to allied countries named?TonyNO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Just as a point of interest, a flurry of unnamed DCMs & MMs came onto the market in Britain a few years ago, sold as original & "thought" to be unnamed as issued to foreigners. About the same time though good quality repros of WWI medals & stars were also coming on the market......(I'm not suggesting that tthe ones shown here are not genuine). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) DCM or MM ?May be not good pictures of MM , but I'm sure - medals 100% ORIGINAL ! Edited March 11, 2007 by Igor Ostapenko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 reverse of MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 DCM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 I am no experts, but they look very nice indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John5813 Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Does anyone know how many DSO's and MC's were awarded to foreigners during WWI?John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 As these were not routinely gazetted, numbers are imprecise. The best information from Abbot and Tamplin (the best source) is:DSOFrance - 678Italy - 251Belgium - 134U.S.A. - 83Greece - 43Serbia - 38Rumania - 29Japan - 21Portugal - 21Czechoslovakia - 20Arab Army - 6China - 2Montenegro - 1Russia - 1Slavo-British Aviation Corps - 1MCFrance - 1423 (plus one bar)Italy - 575U.S.A. - 320 (plus 4 bars)Belgium - 232Romania - 69Serbia - 68 (plus one bar)Greece - 65Czechoslovakia - 60Portugal - 37Japan - 34Arab Army - 12Russia - 6China - 3Montenegro - 2Slavo-British Aviation Corps - 1Verdun - 1Ypres - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 As these were not routinely gazetted, numbers are imprecise. The best information from Abbot and Tamplin (the best source) is:DSORussia - 1Slavo-British Aviation Corps - 1MCRussia - 6Slavo-British Aviation Corps - 1From Kew - BRITISH DECORATION AWARDED TO RUSSIAN ARMY DSO - 135 MC - 420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 (edited) Interesting, Igor. Do you have the reference to this?These seem to be wartime awards, not Civil War. We need to separate the two sets of numbers. Edited May 5, 2007 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Edward , These awarding from Great War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Yes, I saw that. This is why I said what I did and it is part of what makes the document so interesting. This is part of what makes me want the reference so I can see this the next time I'm at the PRO. Presumably, similar sheets exist for other allied countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Ostapenko Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 DCM on French e-Bay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=110123744858and from Kew - "...to be given ..." http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1721...mp;#entry175782 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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