Family Medal racks

Dpas

If your grandpa was wounded in losing his eye - he is then entitled to a wound stripe which is a gold stripe of 2" x 1/8th " worn down by the left cuff

Cheers

 

A photo of the medals I researched for my family after the death of my father. He never saw or mentioned his medals, was only happy to have survived but we, his family, cherish them. I had them framed and they now hang proudly on my mother's living room wall. I have removed the frame and glass as the photo flash spoilt the picture.

Malcolm (Calum) MacLean, Merchant Navy.

Regards
Hugh

 

Chindits with an African Star Medal

The 70th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) was formed in the Middle East and was used to help relieve the Australian 9th Division at Tobruk (Operation Crusader) in November and December 1941.

After moving to India, the division was broken up and absorbed into Wingate's training regime for the Chindit Operation of 1944. Operation Thursday.

This is why men from regimental battalions such as:

1st Essex
1st Beds and Herts.
2nd Yorks and Lancs.
2nd Black Watch
2nd Leicesters.
4th Borders

Have both the Africa and Burma Stars within their entitlement. Please see the well worn example of such a group below.

 

My Fathers Medals. T H Mitchell, pre-war soldier , Dunkirk Veteran (2nd Grenadiers), North African & Italian Veteran (Recce).

Awards Issued

1939-45 Star
Africa Star with 1st Army Clasp
Italy Star
War Medal 1939-45
Defence Medal
Dunkirk Medal
King Albert F.N.V.R.A. - K.V.V.K.A..Veterans' Medal
Cross of Europe Medal
King Albert FRVRA Veterans 25th Anniversary Medal 1948-1973
The King's Loyal Service Badge

Unfortunately I do not have the Numeral 1 which was issued.

My father had permission to wear the foreign medals below the British medals. See parade 3 which is of Dad as Standard Bearer for the Dunkirk Veterans Association of WA.



Cheers
Paul

 

My grandad was in the RA, serving on various ships as a DEMS gunner.

Enlisted in the Loyal Regiment TA at Chorley 16/04/1935
RA 437/62 SL 31/10/1938
Posted 2nd Maritime AA Bty 30/10/1941

Atlantic Convoys
Iceland resupplying RU/UR convoys & Icelandic bases
Mediterranean Convoys (incl Operation Dragoon)

Posted 1st Maritime Regiment 06/01/1945
Transferred South Staffordshire Regiment 14/03/1946
Released Reserve 21/03/1946
Discharged from Reserve Liability 30/06/1959

Awards issued

1939/45 Star
Atlantic Star
Burma Star
Italy Star
War Medal 1939/45
Efficiency Medal (Territorial)

In the process of organising a new display cabinet, so they're currently stored in a box for safe-keeping.

 

Banboo

Not only the troops from 70th Div transfer to Burma thus allowing them to wear the Africa and Burma Stars but 6th RTR also went to Burma after Africa - and on the way back they also served

in Italy thus entitled to wear the Africa - Burma and Italy Stars….not a bad chest full...

Cheers

 

Thanks Tom,

Yes you're right, not a bad chestful. I was really only posting groups which I have at home, I was leaving other potential entitlement combinations for other forum members to post.

Cheers.

Steve

 

On looking at some of the very professional looking medal frames that various members have set up, I thought it might of help if I posted (on this thread) a few helpful postings on both mounting medals and displaying them in frames or cabinets.
There are plenty of these articles about on the forum.

Here are just a few:

Court Mounted Medals
Court Mounted Medals (And Medal related 'show & tell').

Making frames for Medals
medal frame/cabinets

Medal mounting plaques
Medal Mounting Plaques

Ron

 

Hi All,

I thought I'd add a couple of Indian Army medal entitlements to the thread.

The first one is really only for show. It belongs to a member of the Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He served in North Africa, Italy and then Northern Europe, a very rare combination of Stars for Land based forces to Indian service personnel.

The second is a fairly common entitlement to the 2nd Gurkha Regiment for service in the Burma theatre during WW2.

The mounted group also includes the India Service Medal (fourth from left), which effectively replaced the Defence Medal within the Indian Forces. Also shown (second right), but with the wrong ribbon is the Indian Independence Medal. This medal was issued in 1949 as a commemorative award to British Military personnel after independence in August 1947.

The soldier to which the group belongs mixed up his GSM Malaya Clasp and his Indian Independence Medal which have each others ribbon attached.

Links explaining the two Indian awards for WW2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Service_Medal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Independence_Medal

And the medal groups:

 

In a previous thread I added a photo of a medal entitlement for Captain Pavitt that I got made up and presented to him, below is a shot of the result.

Note that besides the spelling typo in the text on the plaque (my fault) there are apparently a couple of minor anomalies with the actual medals due to problems with sourcing obscure (by Aussie standards) NZ & British medals.

 

My Dads medals:
Granger Brownell Martin
Joined Sept 39
RCA..... 6th Sydney Heavy Batt
Then transfered to 23rd Field Artillery RCA
1944 volunteered for Para training as Airborne Gunner
Then attached to British 6th Airborne in 2nd Forward Observer Unit
Saw action in the Ardennes and Operation Varsity
Re-enlisted post WW2 in RC Signals (was awarded the Coronation medal)

 

South African WW2 Entitlement to a serviceman from the IMC

This is an example of a group awarded to a soldier from the Indian and Malay Corps, which formed part of the Cape Corps of the South African Army.

Petrus Frans was a 'coloured' Other Rank and served in the North Africa/Middle East theatres during the war. He had a somewhat checkered service history, including two spells in jail for being AWOL. He also lost his full Army kit during his first week in training, for which he was fined.

His medal entitlement includes the Africa Star, with the North Africa 1942-43 clasp and the Africa Service Medal. Images below show his full entitlement and a close up of the standard naming style on his Africa Star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Service_Medal

 

I've just finished this arrangement the other day.
These are my grampas medals. Only the medals and photos are actually personal possessions. I purchased the Cameron's and steel sas pin on eBay. The cloth sas and parachute wings came from the regiment directly.

39/45 star
Africa star
39/45 war medal.

 

Grandfather ww2 RN service in boom defence with 3945 star Burmaand f&g star and war medal with defence medal issued last year still in box

Grandmother ww2 WAAF service defence and war medal

 

My grandfathers group with the defence medal mounted.

 

Yes, it would be interesting to learn about his time during WW2.

 

Hi All,

My grandfather served in Boom Defence.

Joined up 30 November 1940, port division Rosyth (Rooke) Official number R/JX 230549.

Served

HMS Pembroke 30/11/40-9/12/05 as OD.
HMS Wildfire (B.D.) 10/12/40-7/3/41
HMS Rooke 8/3/41-2/9/41
HMS Lanka (Port T) 3/9/41-30/11/41
HMS Lanka (Port T) 1/12/41-25/1/42 as AB
HMS Haitan (Barmill) 26/1/42-31/3/42
HMS Lanka (Barmill) 1/4/42-30/9/42
HMS Lanka 1/10/42-14/1/43
HMS Lanka (Barmill)15/1/43-30/6/43
HMS Highflyer (Barmill)1/7/43-21/4/44
HMS Lanka 22/4/44-22/4/44
HMS Kirriemoor 23/4/44-19/9/44
HMS Rooke 20/9/44-17/11/44
HMS Wildfire (Thames B.D.) 18/11/44-24/1/46.

Qualified for 39-45 star and Burma star on hms barmill a bar class boom defence vessel, qualified for France and Germany star on hms kirriemoor as went to seine bay in July 44

I applied for his defence medal as spent 7 months in Ceylon and port T and then 12 months in uk, the mod agreed that he had qualified after I provided proof that Ceylon qualified under the 6 months rule. So had more than 6 months qualifying time under that rule and 1/3 under uk 3 yr rule, have applied for Atlantic clasp as spent 6 months in Atlantic whilst qualifying for 39-45 star and then another 5 months on kirriemoor in the Atlantic. It depends on whether they feel inclined to issue as his original medal card is marked Atlantic?

Regards

James

 

I had the frame containing my Dad's medals changed, as it was looking a little bit faded after 40 years.

Before. (It might look fine when you stand in front of them.)

After and delighted with the result.