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OMRS Convention

The highlight of the OMRS calendar. Convention is back this year on 13-14 September, in Milton Keynes.

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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

 

  • Major Willie Pilcher: a proud ‘Fire-eating Devil’ of the Mih-Ho-Loong Rifles
  • Harry Needs — from private to sapper in
    34 years
  • The War Medal: Some lines addressed by a
    veteran to his newly awarded and long-awaited Military General Service Medal
  • The Art of Deception – 52 Company, D Force
  • Sir Phillip Jacobus Lagesen, KCB, DFC, AFC, MiD
  • Deserving of Silver, not Bronze
  • A Waterloo artefact
  • Sergeant Major J.W. Tucker, Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles and the research journey to finally identify this man
  • Don’t panic; Home Guard records come to the rescue: 2775 Private Joseph George Parrott, the Middlesex Regiment, later ‘ENSA’
  • The Royal Naval Division 1914-19: DSO and
    MC awards

 

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