All This Talk About Medals.....
, he does appear to be wearing wings perched on top of all that fruit salad ....
I used to be the PMC of a mess at a North London airbase and we were saying farewell, inter alia, to our USAF exchange officer. It fell to me to make a few comments about him before he spoke, and I mentioned that until I started to serve with our allies from t'other side of the pond, I had thought the term: 'Monthly Medal', applied to the golf club. For some reason this seemed to be greeted with much mirth from around the room: probably the way I told it!?
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Do the Marines get the little rifle badge to show they have served in combat, if so he appears to have collected a lot without going anywhere dangerous...
Looks a bit like Capt Mainwaring.
Looks a bit like Capt Mainwaring.
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Nearly right, overlapping is after 5 full size medals, miniatures the statement is "after 9 medals they may be overlapped as is appropriate to the wearer and the mess dress being worn for his service or arm". In short, a barrel chested man wearing a waistcoat and flared cavalry jacket (HCR, AAC, RLC etc) could wear in excess of 9 miniatures, a lady of slight build wearing a bolero style jacket with lapels (RAF, R Signals, REME etc) would end up with the medal on the extreme right (as worn) nestling in the centre of her chest therefore, overlapping is acceptable. RM mess dress along with the remainder of line Infantry is of this design so would expect overlapping (RM only dress like women, I would never be that stupid to suggest they are....)
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Respect, I have always found court mounting easier due to having a solid item to work on, swing mounting is far trickier
Nearly right, overlapping is after 5 full size medals, miniatures the statement is "after 9 medals they may be overlapped as is appropriate to the wearer and the mess dress being worn for his service or arm". In short, a barrel chested man wearing a waistcoat and flared cavalry jacket (HCR, AAC, RLC etc) could wear in excess of 9 miniatures, a lady of slight build wearing a bolero style jacket with lapels (RAF, R Signals, REME etc) would end up with the medal on the extreme right (as worn) nestling in the centre of her chest therefore, overlapping is acceptable. RM mess dress along with the remainder of line Infantry is of this design so would expect overlapping (RM only dress like women, I would never be that stupid to suggest they are....)
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Respect, I have always found court mounting easier due to having a solid item to work on, swing mounting is far trickier
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Old Fella...
It has two possible meanings:
1. Historical slang used by a judges when discussing the villains that they had transported to the colonies (ie "he was a con of mine").
2. A typo which slipped through because there is no spell checker on here.
You choose!!
Wensleydale, could you define "acconomy" for me please?
1. Historical slang used by a judges when discussing the villains that they had transported to the colonies (ie "he was a con of mine").
2. A typo which slipped through because there is no spell checker on here.
You choose!!
Thanks for the link lauriebe.
Sloppy Link - yes you are right, I was thinking of full-size medals. I never attempted to mount miniatures - far too fiddly for me!
Sloppy Link - yes you are right, I was thinking of full-size medals. I never attempted to mount miniatures - far too fiddly for me!
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It's not what one's got, it's how one wears them, and this images says it all..
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...65_964x824.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...65_964x824.jpg
