Military Medals and Decorations - 5 eBooks on CD

MILITARY
Medals and Decorations

1. The ABC Of War Medals And Decorations: Being The History In he Maqnner In Which They Were Won, And A Complete Record Of Their Award: Their Characteristics: How They Are Named and How They Were Counterfeited  written in 1915 by Augustus Steward, 580 pages and 264 illustrations. "The Historical Value. My collection of medals enables me to cover over a hundred years of history; takes me back to the stirring times when men yet met face to face in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; to the men who founded our Indian Empire. It enables me to keep in touch with sailors who fought in the battle of the Nile, at Trafalgar, and at Navarino, that last of all naval battles in which we British took part our allies were then the French and Russians until our battleships met those of the Germans in the great war now waging. It reminds me of the horsemen who made the world wonder ere, with deathless glory, they passed their little day, and of that "thin red line" of Scots, whose cool daring at Balaklava has only been bedimmed by the gallantry of the Light Brigade."

2. War Medals and Decorations: Issued To the British Military and Naval Forces and Allies 1588 to 1910  by Hastings Irwin written in 1910 is 580 pages in length. "Of late years collecting War Medals has become a very popular hobby in this country, and seems likely to rival in popularity the formation of collections of coins. No doubt one reason for this is the very fine appearance presented by the medals when decked with their proper ribbons, and also the fact that almost every medal recalls some act of gallantry performed during the campaign for which it was
issued. Hitherto the standard work on the subject has been Gibson's " British Military and Naval Medals," an excellent work, and one which contains much valuable information. It only, however, touches on medals down to 1877, since when many additions to our campaign medals have been made."

3. The Medal Collector: A Guide To Naval, Military, Air-Force and Civil Medals and Ribbons  by Stanley Hohnson in 1921, with over 300 pages. "The present work, it should be explained, deals with pieces struck for wearing medals, in fact and describes every official award of note from the time of the Armada down to the honours won in the various theatres of the Great War. The Armada serves as our starting point because it was then that English medals were first awarded, but it may be well to state that foreign countries had struck pieces much earlier for distribution among their own fighting men."

4. The Book Of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of All Nations: Comprising An Historical Account Of each Order, Military, Naval, and Civil, From The Earliest To The Present Time, with Lists Of the Knights and Companions of Each British Order. Edited by Sir Bernard Burke in 1858, 520 pages in length. "The value of an authority on such a subject, in which the reader can ascertain who has been decorated, and what is the character of the decoration, must be obvious. To supply this desideratum, a full account has been compiled from the best authorities, of all the orders, with a description of every distinction now worn at home and abroad; and trustworthy lists have been appended, brought down to the latest announcements, of the English recipients of both. The Illustrations will speak for themselves.."

5. Orders, Decorations and Insignia Military and Civil: With The History and Romance of their Origin and a full Description of Each. Written in 1921 by Colonel Robert E. Wyllie is 330 pages in length, 367 illustrations (200 in colour). "Colonel Wyllie's book Orders, Decorations, and Insignia covers the field indicated by its title very completely, and it will be of interest not only to wearers of decorations but, as a book of reference, to people of other countries as well as to Americans."

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6. The First Five Hundred  by Rchard Cramm in 1921, and is 300 pages in length. An Historical Account of the  Royal Newfoundland Regiment in Gallipoli and on the Western Front during the Great War (1914-1918). Together with the individual military records and photographs where obtainable of the men of the first contingent, known as the "The First Five Hundred," or "The Blue Puttees."

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