Medal Ribbons - ID Please
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I wonder if one of the forum's medal aficionados would be kind enough to cast an expert eye over this picture and perhaps ID which medals this Queen's Westminster Rifles Bandsman, is wearing, please?:
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Yes Peter,
They are medal ribbons. Hope that helps Matti |
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Peter,
Colour did not come into everyday life until 1956 so that should help to date it a bit. Matti |
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Middle ribbon of the three could be a K.S.A.(see attached) and the plain dark ribbon could be the V.L.S.G.C. - depending of course on when your photo was taken, but none appear to be 'Pip', 'Squeak' or 'Wilfred'. |
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Help could be my middle name. :D
Matti |
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You know, a lot of people have other names for me. Some are not very polite either! Unlike Duke William of Normandy, my parents were married. Some put the words stupid, daft, irritating or annoying before the nickname they have for me.
Oh well Matti |
This is a long shot, but could the first one be the Tibet Medal (1905)? Although the white strips seem a little wide. If the second one is the KSA, it was never issued without the QSA and I am sure the first one isn't.
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Peter,
To be helpful, I have had a proper look and can say that the first one is NOT the Victoria Cross. Matti |
I think it's simpler.
1. Queen's South Africa Medal 2. King's South Africa Medal 3. Army Long Service & Good Conduct. The KSA could not be awarded to soldiers without the QSA; and the vagiaries of orthochromatic film play tricks with light and dark tones on period medal ribbons, which is to say that I don't think it is the Tibet Medal. I plump for the LS&GC (which didn't get white edges until 1918) on balance of his being a regular. |
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It can do, yes. And the logic is that no KSA without a QSA as well. The advice a far more experienced photographer gave me on the Great War Forum was thus: The trouble is that the photographic reproduction process in use at the time of the Great War actually alters the relative tonal values of the image. Thus we find dark blues appearing as very light in real Great War photos - e.g. the dark blue Khedive's Star ribbon in my picture of Sgt-Master-Tailor Simpson, which appears almost white. If you take a modern image of a dark blue medal ribbon and switch it to monochrome, the resulting greyscale image will still appear dark. |
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