What is a war medal? A war medal was given
normally for a campaign or for an
entire war. Normally one thinks
of WWI medals being Pig, Squeak and Wilfred as they are affectionately known, as the first
war medals to be issued en masse. This is
not true, the first major war medal was actually the Waterloo medal, which was the first to be given to all
participants in the great battle that ensued.
Most British army medals are named to the individual, either to the rim of the medal or to the reverse if
it is plain. The exceptions to this are
the WWII stars, war and defence medal. These were not officially named by the British government, although
Boots the well known chemist, offered to engrave
any WWII medal free of charge for the recipients.
As stated earlier, war medals can cover a huge
time span, so you can pick and
choose your campaigns or war and with British campaign medals, these can normally be researched, using the
name, rank and serial number as well as unit
as your guide. German awards are more difficult as they when awarded, came with a citation, which was the
important thing to a German soldier more
than the award. One of the top websites selling original wartime British and German war medals, decorations and badges is http://www.thirdreichmedals.com/. They have a wide variety of different kinds of
war medals which you can browse
through. One of the main features of this website is their guarantee, where they offer a 30 day
money back guarantee if not happy with your purchase
for any reason. This gives the buyer time to research and be completely with what they are
purchasing, a must in this collecting field.
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