Help with modern medal ribbons please

[Tigerlily]

I appreciate it's not the medal forum but can someone just confirm I have these medals correct on this Grenadier Guards No 2 dress jacket, please?

I have it as
Top, left to right:
GSM & NATO Kosovo medal

Bottom, left to right:
OSM Iraq, OSM Afghanistan with bar, QEII Golden Jubilee & Accumulated Campaign Service Medal

Thank you

Alli

[manchesters]

Tigerlilly,

The OSM Iraq is not an OSM its just the "Iraq Medal".
The OSM Afghanistan has a clasp, not a bar.
The rest are correct

regards

[Frank Kelley]

CSM not GSM, although, it is often referred to as such, just as a clasp is often called a bar.
Given the choice of a CSM or an OSM, I'd much prefer the former, notwithstanding the metals used.

Originally Posted by Tigerlily

I appreciate it's not the medal forum but can someone just confirm I have these medals correct on this Grenadier Guards No 2 dress jacket, please?

I have it as
Top, left to right:
GSM & NATO Kosovo medal

Bottom, left to right:
OSM Iraq, OSM Afghanistan with bar, QEII Golden Jubilee & Accumulated Campaign Service Medal

Thank you

Alli

[manchesters]

Originally Posted by Frank Kelley

CSM not GSM, although, it is often referred to as such, just as a clasp is often called a bar.
Given the choice of a CSM or an OSM, I'd much prefer the former, notwithstanding the metals used.

Frank,

You have got that the wrong way around.

It is called the GSM 1962-2007, BUT, is often called the CSM.

regards

[Frank Kelley]

LOL, well, I always refer to it as a CSM simply because there was an earlier GSM and it avoids confusion, in particular, when the year, 1962, was not used, as was the case in the original post in this thread for example.

[Tigerlily]

Well thanks both of you. And I have to say regarding bar/clasp after posting the photo was talking to someone who has the same medal with clasp he and his mates also refer to it as a bar. But when looking at WW1 MIC's I have always called it a clasp.

Thanks again.

Alli

[54Bty]

In normal medal speak a second award or more of the same medal is called a bar, DSO & Bar, MM and Bar. For a service type medal that can be awarded for more then one area of operations it is called a clasp, QSA and 6 clasps, GSM 1962 and clasp.

With the introduction of the GSM 1962 dealers and collectors referred to it as the CSM, as that is what is on the reverse, and it stuck. Again normally referring to the GSM it is GSM 1918 and GSM 1962, the end year is not normally used in either case.

The QE II Jubilee medals are normally referred to as the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal etc.

Marc

[Paul Spellman]

Here is what I think a very good condition GSM with NI clasp
Paul

[Paul Spellman]

No pomp and ceremony, signed from the admin office 1987

[Tigerlily]

Originally Posted by Paul Spellman

No pomp and ceremony, signed from the admin office 1986 aged 18 and 3/4

Thanks Paul was just about to ask if it was yours.