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  1. As far as I remember, all the medals of a soldier, who served in North Africa, Italy and finally Austria, had all his medals named - these I saw around 1970, including the Military Medal and Medaille Militaire, fr. (reverse was engraved or stamped?), Africa, Italy, 1939-45 Medal and Star as well as Defence Medal, there was also the Territorial Medal with this. He lived in Chingford/Essex, was a post-war bank manager, he had the rank of "sergeant" and with the 8th Army during the war. Name was CARTER, Sergeant, he was either Rifle Brigade or "Green Howards". Also, his grandfather (mother's side), can't remember the name, was with the Royal Marine Artillery in France, on the Somme in 1914-18, at Albert, Pommera, etc., and he also won the Military Medal. So Carter jr. has two military medals in his family. I hope he has kept them till this day.
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  2. Ok, thanks. I was wondering about that. I appreciate the info.
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  3. Paul British stars were never named, the only countries who named their stars were India, Australia and South Africa
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  4. I have a question on the Campaign/Star medals. How common is it for them to be named? I see a lot for sale that are just blank, with only a few named. Just curious
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  5. Pacific stars are harder to find, I can sometimes go for months without having one in stock, where as all the others are pretty much in stock most of the time. The Atlantic star is next rarest, then the Burma, then France and Germany, Africa, Italy and most common the 39-45 star.
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  6. That's very unusual I've never come across that before, as usual there may have been exceptions to the rule but generally they were issued unnamed, perhaps because he got the Medaille Militaire which was named the others were named at the same time? Another interesting fact is no more than five stars could be worn at any one time, those who qualified for more received a clasp to be worn on the appropriate star. Got the spell check changed it was set to English (United States) now fixed
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  7. I doubt if he went to the trouble to have them privately engraved, just kept as souvenir and never worn, also had a few bringbacks from North Africa and Austria, a Dienstglas, a Beretta pistol, which later fell to pieces! some banknotes from the Reich and the occupation money notes.
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  8. Yes it is still possible to get them stamped or engraved privately, your correct the British way to spell it is defence, my spell checker must be English American not sure how to change that on my browser, thanks for pointing that out, will take a look and try to update it
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  9. I can't remember whether they were stamped or engraved. He never wore them, because they were never mounted, but still had the original box. I recently saw an example of a star, can't remember which one, I only remember it had on the reverse: W. GILL and his service number, can't remember unit. May have been a Commonwealth issue. N.B.: Spelt as "DEFENCE", see same.
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  10. It's possible he got his name engraved privately but they were never issued named. Also of interest are the Canadians, whilst their War and Defense medals were the exact same as the British they were actually made from silver rather than the British which were cupro-nickel. The Indian , South African and Australians also had there own Defense medals which were a totally different design.
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  11. Part II of this important historical film (1942)
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  12. Können Sie einige Bilder davon posten? Can you post a few pictures please?
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  14. 1984: Hans Dose, Hinrich Hoperi, Heinr. Koll 3rd from left, Hans Dose, remainder unknown. Centre: Victoria Luise, Herzogin von Braunschweig, Prinzessin von Preußen, k.H., the only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Bruno Stoffers, Hugo Andersen, others not known.
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  15. Clasps are always rarer, but did not realise the Pacific Star was next rarest. This RAF man, a signaler, had the Burma star. This ribbon bar was on the tunic as arrived, however, a poor quality, early post war paper-type garn with a celluloid covering. Interesting to note, he had the Defence Medal, but not the War Medal. Tunic dated 1944.
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  17. Yes it's a nightmare, it's legal for you to have it, but you can never sell it or even give it away. Unless you get it deactivated to EU/UK spec which will totally ruin it and could end up costing as much as the gun is worth. Then you need to inform the Home Office Serious Violence Unit that you have it and give them your name and address, then if you do sell it, you need to inform them again and give them the name and the address of the person you sold it to.
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