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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- Not a unique name, but one of only nine medals issued: William Tucker, HMS Mars
- Vice-Admiral Radcliffe: HMS Fox and the Fox Hunter
- The 1914 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Medal for Military Merit, Second Class.
- The Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840: Claimants Lists ADM 171/2 and 171/3 20
- Antwerp, Gallipoli and Jutland; the Service of an RNVR Officer
- A seemingly ordinary BEM, John Steed and the inter-war lesbian scene
- ‘We have seen Dante’s Inferno’ – Air Commodore Denis Aymard Wilson, CBE, AFC
- William Robert Brice, Captain of the Main Top, Royal Navy
- John F. MacGrennan: The Consummate Public Officer
- Young Soldiers
- The Naval General Service Medal 1793 – 1840. Late Issues Not on Roll and the Myth of Hunt & Roskell
- Afghanistan Medals 1878-80 to E Battery B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
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