British Military Medals : a Guide for the Collector and Family Historian
This second edition of Peter Ducker's best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British and imperial military history, and to uncovering the careers and exploits of individual soldiers. In a series of succinct and well-organized chapters he explains how medals originated, to whom they were awarded and how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. H
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9781473830998, 9781473829831, 1473830990, 1473829836
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Campaign Medals: Early History; Chapter 2 The East India Company Awards After 1784; Chapter 3 The Earliest British Campaign Medals, 1815-42; Chapter 4 The Retrospective Medals of 1847-51; Chapter 5 Medals for Major Campaigns, 1850-1914; Chapter 6 The Introduction of General Service Medals; Chapter 7 Researching Medals and their Recipients, 1815-1914: a Basic Guide; Chapter 8 Medals for 'the Great War', 1914-18; Chapter 9 General Campaign Medals of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 10 Medals for the Second World War, 1939-45. Chapter 11 Medals for Major Campaigns After 1945Chapter 12 Researching Medals and their Recipients, 1920-2008; Chapter 13 The Origins of British Gallantry Awards; Chapter 14 Awards for Long and Meritorious Service; Appendix 1 Using the Internet; General Bibliography; Index
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