Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke Medal Ribbons

[filfoster]

Can anyone identify all the ribbons on Brookie's two row medal ribbon ensemble? 

 

1. Military Order of the Bath

2. DSO with repeat award rosette

3. Mons Star with rosette

4. WW1 Service Medal

5. WW1 Victory Medal

6. Edward VII Coronation medal

7. George V jubilee medal 1935

8.George VI Coronation medal 1937

9. ? French Croix de Guerre?

[Great Dane]

Based on how the stripes are distributed (in the B/W photo), last one might be the Belgian Croix de Guerre.

[Lukasz Gaszewski]

55 minutes ago, filfoster said:

Can anyone identify all the ribbons on Brookie's two row medal ribbon ensemble? 

 

1. Military Order of the Bath

2. DSO with repeat award rosette

3. Mons Star with rosette

4. WW1 Service Medal

5. WW1 Victory Medal

6. Edward VII Coronation medal

7. George V jubilee medal 1935

8.George VI Coronation medal 1937

9. ? French Croix de Guerre?

Agree, provided that #6 is George V rather than Edward VII Coronation Medal and #9 Is the Belgian WWI CdG, as Great Dane has suggested.

 

Here is a GI photo of 22 August 1944, with two other foreign ribbons: of the Polish Grand Cross of Polonia Restituta (for some reason he is wearing it without the rosette) and USSR's Order of Suvorov 1st Class. Most interesting though is the ribbon of the future 1939-1945 Star. It is a good evidence that the ribbon was manufactured as early as 1944, when neither the star, nor the name (in 1944 nobody knew how long the war would last) was yet decided.

 

https://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fotografie-di-cronaca/british-army-officer-field-marshal-sir-alan-fotografie-di-cronaca/781765591

 

 

[filfoster]

Agree with both corrections/additons. So:

1. Military Order of the Bath

2. DSO with repeat award rosette

3. Mons Star with rosette

4. WW1 Service Medal

5. WW1 Victory Medal

6. George V Coronation medal 1911

7. George V jubilee medal 1935

8.George VI Coronation medal 1937

9. Belgian Croix de Guerre