Our Society exists to promote a general interest in the study of orders, decorations and medals and to actively encourage and publish research into all aspects of civil and military medals, with a particular focus on those issued by Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries.
Members’ interests range from awards for gallantry in battle, or bravery in saving life, through forgotten wars and far-flung campaigns, to long and meritorious public service away from the limelight. Research interests stretch from pure numismatics, through the military or social history surrounding the circumstances of awards, to the genealogy of the medal recipient.
Contents
- The Fenian Medal 1867 to the 6th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
- The Long Service and Good Conduct Medal: now available to officers
- The tale of two friends from Newport-on-Tay, Fife in the Great War
- Gordon’s Khartoum Star
- Researching Bombardier Robert Cooper Hall DCM
- Armeedenkzeichen 1866
- The ‘AFGHANISTAN-NWF 1919’ clasp to the IGSM 1908-35 as awarded to the Machine Gun Corps: Part 1 The Battles of Bagh
- Lieutenant Robert Paterson: a yachtsman’s war
- King Charles III Coronation Medal (Canada)
- ‘His Memory We Treasure’: Jack Owen, GM fireman and Ordinary Seaman Royal Navy
- Born in a workhouse and present at a VC action, aged 17 – the service of Temporary Warrant Officer George Tucker, RM
- The society awards of Major J.M.A. Tamplin MBE, TD (1927-2015)
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