Help identifying medals please

Discussion in 'General' started by Sean Joyce, Jan 30, 2021.

  1. Sean Joyce

    Sean Joyce Member

    Can anyone identify the following medals (from left to right) please?

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  2. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member Patron

    Order of St. John Officers (Serving Brother) Breast Badge, 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal 1939-45 and Order of St. John Service Medal with multiple bars (award for each five years served).
     
  3. Sean Joyce

    Sean Joyce Member

    Excellent - thank you

    They are my grandad's

    He was 14 FDS (RAMC) attached the 43rd Div
     
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  4. Uncle Target

    Uncle Target Well-Known Member

    I have placed the description of military medal ribbons below to help you identify the WW2 issue ones.
    I would need to look up the first left which seems to be a St John Ambulance Brigade (as it was called then) medal of sort. St John had and still have a strong connection to the British Army as the White Cross of St John was worn by British Army Medics and Stretcher Bearers in WW1 until the Red Cross became the International Symbol for neutrality in 1916 or thereabouts.
    next is the 1939-45 Star, the France and Germany Star , the Defence Medal, the War Medal 1939-45,the right hand medal with Queen Victoria on looks by the bars on the ribbon to be also related to the St John Ambulance organisation.
     

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  5. Sean Joyce

    Sean Joyce Member

    Great work Uncle - and thanks for the ribbon refs
     
  6. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member Patron

    A very nice medal group too. Look after them. :)
     

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