The Orders, Decorations and Medals of Denmark

Links & Other References

Acknowledgements

The assistance of the Danish Department of Defence is gratefully acknowledged, in particular their generousity in allowing the use of their illustrations of medals. Images and information has also been shared by Preben Sloht Nielsen, Henrik Revens, and Sune Schønnemann.

Grateful thanks to Liverpool Medals, who have allowed the use of images from their catalogue.

Links

Danish Department of Defence - Medals (a bit out-of-date)

Antonio Prieto Barrio - Ribbons of Denmark - Page 1 - Page 2

Lukasz Gaszewski - Decorations and Medals of the Kingdom of Denmark

Hendrik Meersschaert - Medals of World War 2: Denmark

Will Shade - Medals of Denmark

Sune Schønnemann - SkibDen - database of Danish medals

Sven Vik - World Orders and Medals: Denmark

Yuri Yashnev - Kingdom of Denmark

Napoleon Online - Decorations of Denmark

Medalnj - Denmark

Wikipedia - List of orders, decorations and medals of the Kingdom of Denmark (largely the work of Sune Schønnemann)

Text References

Johan C. Holm Danmarks Krigsmedaller/Danish War Medals, 1964.

P. Morrissey 'The Silver Jubilee Medal of Queen Margrethe of Denmark'. Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society 36:274-275. 1997.

L. Stevnsborg 'Two New Danish Medals'. Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society 31:304-306. 1992.

L. Stevnsborg 'British Recipients of the Danish Medal for Freedom and of Danish Orders; with an introduction on Danish awards for services in the World War'. Miscellany of Honours 12:67-88. 1998.

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