Hungary Mining Service Medal

[decker]

B?ny?sz Szolg?lati ?rdem?rem /Mining Service Medal/

What I know about it:

It was founded in 1956. This kind of service medal was awarded to the personnel being employed in the mining industry "for participating in the building of socialism by continuous good and disciplined work". Not only the people working under ground could get them, but the ones in the administrative staff, as well. The medals were usually given to the awardees on the 'Day of Miners' in each year (that is held on the first sunday in September).

There were three regular classes (bronze, silver and gold) and one special/rare class in 'diamond' from 1984, that looked a little different than the other three classes (full back, larger crest, different hanger, etc). I have seen each class of these medals in award cases, but all my copies came in plastic folders together with the documents. (I will try to scan the folders, too.)

The reason for the award was a certain measure of time in service. Br: 10 years of service under ground or 15 years administrative service; Si: 20/25 years of service; Go: 25/30 years of service; Di: 30/35 years of service. Service time was count from 4th April, 1945.

The medals and documents below were awarded to my grandfather in 1960, 1970 and 1975. He had never got the diamond class. The collection is not complete, because I couldn't find the bronze medal (though my grandpa, my grandma and my father also had their own copy...) As soon as I pick one up, I will upload an image of it.

Some info about the owners of the signatures on the documents:

dr. M?nnich Ferenc - Fock Jenő - L?z?r Gy?rgy

Edited March 29, 2007 by decker

[Gordon Craig]

Chris,

Nice to have you back with us. Thanks for posting pictures of the documents. I will be posting my cased Miner's Medals soon on a thread related to the Miner's uniform. Perhaps you can add some info to that one for us. I have no information on the uniform other than what I can deduce from the tunic that I own.

Regards,

Gordon

Edited March 29, 2007 by Gordon Craig

[Ed_Haynes]

Mine, bronze.

[Ed_Haynes]

And (though it has had a hard life) the document.

[Gordon Craig]

Ed,

Another interesting medal and document. First you post a document for an order awarded to a chap with a German name, Otto Scmidt. Then you post one with a last name that in Hungarian means German. Some coincidence!

Regards,

Gordon