Orders, Decorations and Medals of the United Kingdom

Links and Other References

Acknowledgements

Tony Farrell, who generously shared his collection of UK medal pictures; Andrew Pattison and Martin Wagner who have been enthusiastically photographing their own collections to send me pictures, and Lukasz Graszewski for the Royal Family Orders. Ian McCloud sent a picture of his own Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) LS & GC Medal. Freddie of Philip Burman Military Medals (UK) who is also sending me pictures, Gareth Ollard for the 8th Army bar to the Italy Star and Rowley Jones for information on Ambulance Service awards.

Grateful thanks to Morton & Eden, Spink & Son and Liverpool Medals, who have allowed use of pictures from their catalogues.

Links

The Cabinet Office - Ceremonial Secretariat - information about the British Honours System and how they are awarded.

Jean-Paul LeBlanc - Medals of Britain

Yuri Yashnev - For Merit: United Kingdom

Ed Haynes - IEPE Page on Britain

Stephen Stratford - UK Medals - part of an excellent site on various military matters.

David Devine - Rusty Knight: British Medals

W. Arthur - 'The Medals Resource' - British medals of the two World Wars.

Jeremy Newman - Jeremy's Medals: UK

Norman Wood - Medals of the Militia (part of his excellent Jersey Militia site, which covers the history and insignia of the Militias of the Channel Islands)

Eric Bush - Ribbons of Britain

Britain's Small Wars - wonderful resource on British military activity around the world between 1945 and 1992.

Roger Hebblethwaite & Terry Hissey - The George Cross Database

Lukasz Gaszewski - British Commonwealth Decorations Ribbon Rackbuilder

Text References

Robert W. Gould Campaign Medals of the British Army 1815-1972 Arms & Armour 1972.