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.
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- The Naval General Service Medal – ‘OFF MARDOE 6 JULY, 1812’ awarded to Lieutenant Thomas Leslie Crooke
- The Davison Copenhagen Badge
- An unusual Waterloo Medal
- Naval records: some notes for interpreting naval personnel records of the First and Second World Wars period
- ‘Halliday’s Badge of Distinction’ – the most enigmatic of naval medals correctly described
- Representation of the Sovereign on British Medals
- Operation Jubilee – the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942, and questions over dates of death
- The Canadian Forces’ Decoration marks a milestone and shows a new face!
- No Medal for New Zealand
- Internee P-694 Camillien Houde, CBE
- A ‘Bonnie Fighter’: L/Cpl Donald Petrie, DCM, MM, of The Black Watch
- Corporal Reginald Ernest Poulter, MM, Australian Imperial Force
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