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Associated
with Wing Commander Baillie McKenny, AFC, 38 Squadron RAAF.
The United Nations Military Observer Group In Pakistan (UNMOGIP) has supervised the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in the Jammu-Kashmir region since 1948. McKenny was attached to UNMOGIP from March to October 1975. Square brown wooden presentation box with areas of carved ornamentation on the lid and sides. The box is lined with scarlet colored
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inside the lid are two ribbon bars. The upper bar shows the Air Force
Cross, and Campaign Service Medal 1962. The lower bar shows the Vietnam
Medal, the Defence Forces Service Medal with rosette, the National Medal
with bronze disc, and the United Nations Medal service medal for UNMOGIP.
Inside the box is a circular, black wooden desk plaque with a hinged
collapsible stand. The top of the plaque has an embossed silver coloured
metal scroll with 'UNMOGIP'. Under this, also in embossed silver metal,
is the United Nations globe symbol within a gold coloured metal wreath.
a simple metal plate beneath this is engraved 'SQN. LDR. B. McKENNY /
FROM MEMBERS OF UNIMOGIP / MAR 75 TO OCT 75'. |
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| Collected by 2/400460 Private Jim C Burgess who served in 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) during the Korean War. Burgess enlisted in K Force as a volunteer on 13 July 1951. He trained at Ingleburn Camp in Sydney before moving to Japan for further training. He was posted to Korea in December 1951 and served in C Company, 9 Platoon, 3RAR. He found the Chinese medals in early January 1952, near Hill 355 in Korea. After completing his tour of duty he returned to Japan in December 1952. In January 1953 he transferred to the Royal Corps of Australia Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in Kure, Japan where he served until July of that year. | ||
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Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, VC , CM , OBC, CD |
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Smith enlisted as a private in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, Canadian Army, in Vancouver on March 5, 1940, aged 25, and was initially stationed in Scotland and England during the Battle of Britain. He first experienced combat in the autumn of 1942.
On July 10, 1943, he and his fellow Seaforth Highlanders landed with the Canadian 1st Infantry Division in Sicily and fought through the Sicily and Italy campaign in 1943 and 1944. By the time of the action in northern Italy that earned him the VC, Smokey was 30 years old, had been wounded twice. On the night of 21/22 October 1944 at the River Savio, North Italy, Private Smith was in the spearhead of the attack which established a bridgehead over the river. With a P.I.A.T. anti-tank launcher he put an enemy tank out of action at a range of 30 feet (10 metres), and while protecting a wounded comrade, he destroyed another tank and two self-propelled guns, and routed a number of the enemy infantry. |
| He was an independent and strong-willed man who frequently questioned authority. He was promoted to corporal nine times, but subsequently demoted back to private nine times prior to his actions at the River Savio. It was because of these frequent demotions that he remains the only Canadian private to be awarded the VC, although he later achieved the rank of sergeant. | |
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Details & image: Brian Isfeld, Canada |
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| Red Cross 20 years Service Medal | Red Cross Proficiency Medal with Home Nursing clasp |
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| Medallion created to celebrate the unveiling of the National Memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forces | |
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Privately awarded medallion for Service in the Great War |
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Sterling silver memorial medal. The obverse depicts three Australian soldiers charging with fixed bayonets. They are watched over by a goddess figure who is writing on a scroll with her right hand and holding a wreath aloft in her left. A sun is shown setting in the background. The reverse of the medal shows a scroll surrounded by a wreath surmounted by the Australian coat of arms. Around the edge are the words 'HE HEARD HIS COUNTRY'S CALL' with small maker's marks at the base. The scroll is engraved with the words 'A Tribute from THE CITIZENS OF LIDCOMBE To the Memory of PTE. A. SMITH KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE 1917'. AWM REL32970 |
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Webmasters note. Another example of this medallion is at OZ Interest 1 and shows the reverse. |
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A general
service medal awarded to 475033 Able Seaman Nicolaas Paulus Hendrick
Hutteman of the Dutch Merchant Navy. Hutteman was born in 1923 in
Amsterdam and joined the Merchant Navy in 1939.
In November 1940 he signed on 1st Netherlands Military Hospital Ship MS Oranje in Soerabaya in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI). On his second voyage the ship was involved in transporting wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers home from the Middle East. The Oranje arrived in Sydney, the ship's new home port, on 12 December and Hutteman was issued with the Commonwealth of Australia Alien Seaman registration number 26873. During this period the crew of the Oranje would often gather at one of the Repin's coffee shops in Sydney, as the cafe had the reputation of having the best percolated coffee. Hutteman and fellow crew members became friends with one of the waitresses, Una Patricia Davies and when in port members of the crew, including Hutteman, would go to Epping and spend time with the Davies family. |
| Netherlands War Commemorative Cross with clasps 'War Service Merchant Navy 1940-1945', 'Mediterranean Sea 1940-1945' and 'East Asia-South Pacific 1942-1945'. Unnamed as issued. | |
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and Patricia conducted a courtship by letter between visits and were
married in September 1942. Continuing his service with the Merchant Navy
on various ships, Hutteman sailed on voyages to the Middle East, United
Kingdom, Italy and the United States. He rejoined Oranje in August 1945
and undertook four voyages between the Far East, Colombo, New Zealand
and the UK. He returned to the NEI and was involved in the repatriation
of prisoners of war.
During his service on Oranje he was engaged in one voyage to France with German and Italian POWs for exchange with Australian and New Zealand soldiers. He was also on the Oranje when it brought the first group of POWs from Singapore to Australia. On 26 June 1946 he was discharged from the Merchant Navy in Tandjong Priok. He arrived in Sydney aboard a Royal Dutch Navy DC 3 to join his wife and two young daughters. |
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Group of 3
medals to a WW 2 KNIL Flight Mechanic N.C.O., Netherlands East Indies:
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The "Victory Medal" of the Royal Naval Temperance Society. Awarded for abstinence from alcoholic drink for 5 years, The Victory Medal stands for victory over drink and has nothing to do with HMS Victory or victory in war. |
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British Army Temperance medallion bearing the likeness of Earl Roberts. Circa 1900 |
British Army Temperance medal. Reverse reads "Watch & Be Sober" |
British Army Temperance medal, 1925. Central wording is "Heavens Light Our Guide" |
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| Malaysian Medal for service in the Korean War |
Issued by the Government of the Republic of South Korea to its own veterans of the Korean War. It was later offered to some of the veterans of nations who fought in the war on behalf of the United Nations. |
Awarded to members of the French military forces participating in the Korean War. The obverse shows shows the Korean ying and yang symbol and four trigrams within the outline of a rose of Sharon, surrounded by an olive wreath. Above is a flaming torch. The suspender takes the form of a pagoda roof. The reverse has raised lettering 'REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE MEDAILLE COMMEMORATIVE FRANCAISE DES OPERATIONS DE L'ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES EN COREE'. |
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| French WW1 medallion showing the German advance of 1914 and the eventual result. | |
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Auschwitz
Cross (Krzyz Oswiecimski)
Instituted by the State Council (Rada Panstwa) of Poland on March 14,
1985.
Conferred to honor prisoners of Auschwitz and other nazi concentration camps established by the Germans in WW2, first of all to members of the camp Resistance. It could be awarded to other countries' citizens and could be awarded posthumously. A recipient's conduct while imprisoned must have been honorable. Badge: silver Greek cross of wide arms, 42 x 42 mm. |
| Obverse: barb wires and camp poles; the year 1939 on the left, 1945 - on the right arm. In the center there is a red enameled triangle with the letter P, as worn by Polish nationals imprisoned in the camps. The reverse bears the inscription RP / WIEZNIOM / HITLEROWSKICH / OBOZOW KONCENTRACYJNYCH (People's Poland to prisoners of nazi concentration camps). Ribbon: 40 mm, of eleven alternate stripes of blue and gray (colors of clothing worn by prisoners). | |
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Order of the crown-type1 Knight- NOTE: this piece is with swords, but the hilts of the swords and the tip of the blades have been sheared off, reason unknown; WWI Service Cross-with campaign bars for: 1918; OITUZ; CARPATI; WWI Victory Medal |
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Also see the Badges section "Assorted"
