Medal bar cunundrum

[Alex K]

Hi all, got a bit of a question concerning the attached medal bar image, the unknown item is arrowed. The admiral is Sir John Warre Slade, medals left to right are, 

George v coronation, 

Egypt, 

?? 

Africa General service medal (edvii/gv), 

Khedive star. 

 

Unknown medal, Edward vii, coinage facing left, clasp thin type ribbon, central stripe, two thinner edge stripes, I can't seem to find that combination, ribbon, 2 types match, the 1st Afghanistan, but qv coinage, wider clasp, or natal 1906, but wider clasp, and edvii but coinage facing right, nothing else matches or am I missing the ridiculously obvious?? 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Alex K

[Great Dane]

Could it be the Africa General Service Medal (yellow has a tendency to appear very dark on these photos) and the one next to it could be the Naval General Service Medal (not the Africa medal)?

[Alex K]

Hi, thanks, i thought about that option,  but i would have thought a greater contrast in the "greyscale" would be noticed, perhaps i,'m wrong, that being said i would expect a naval general service medal to be in the line-up, 

I appreciate your input 

Regards

Edit, you know, looking at it again, the africa general service medal has 2 green stripes in the centre, perhaps the green and the yellow background merge to a significant degree, and look uniform, you may well be right, i missed the blindingly obvious i think, thanks 

 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Alex K

[Alex K]

25 minutes ago, Simius Rex said:

To my eyes, the medal in the middle looks like the Natal Rebellion Medal with an attached 1906 Bar given to military personnel who participated in crushing the Zulu uprising.  Natal is on the coast of South Africa so I'm sure there was a fair amount of British naval support for and involvement in this special operation.

 

 

 

Yes that was an option i considered, however the coinage on the image shows him facing to the left, whilst the Natal obverse coinage shows him facing to the right, so i discounted that option

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Alex K

[azyeoman]

I believe it’s the Ashanti. 

[paul wood]

Ashanti has a central stripe, given the guy is a jolly jack tar I would suggest Transport Medal.

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[Great Dane]

Some years ago I created a Photoshop B/W filter (tweaking the R, G, B, C, M, Y and K channels) so they corresponded to the B/W photos of the 'past'. I calibrated it using a clear hi-res B/W photo from the period and had the exact bar in colour from an auction catalog.

 

I took a shot at these based on Wikipedia ribbons:

 

Color and 'converted' to B/W:

 

 

 

Note I didn't tweak the filter for this specific purpose, just used the filter I had already created as-is.

 

For comparison

Edited March 10, 2023 by Great Dane

[Alex K]

3 hours ago, Simius Rex said:

To my eyes, the medal in the middle looks like the Natal Rebellion Medal with an attached 1906 Bar given to military personnel who participated in crushing the Zulu uprising.  Natal is on the coast of South Africa so I'm sure there was a fair amount of British naval support for and involvement in this special operation.

 

 

 

Yes that was an option i considered, hiwever yhe cojnage on tge image shows EdwardVII facing to the left, whilst the Natal obverse coinage shoes him facing yo the right, so i discounted that option

 

3 hours ago, Simius Rex said:

Interesting filter, i like it, it seems to show as i mentioned, the green and yellow of the ags, have the same tone on  greyscale, well done

 

 

 

 

 

[paul wood]

If that is the case probably Somaliland 1908-10

 

Paul

[azyeoman]

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

[Alex K]

Thankyou all for your inputs, I think I've got my head around it now 

Regards

[Michael Johnson]

According to the Ancestry medal rolls he had Egypt, AGS Somaliland 1908-10, NGS Persian Gulf 1909-1914, and a British War Medal for the First War.

 

Michael

[Alex K]

Thanks for the confirmation of awards