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Military Medal
Campaign medals were awarded to cover specified conflicts, while gallantry medals recognise personal accomplishments by members of the armed forces or acts of civilian bravery.
Collecting areas range widely in this field, from regiments and types of medals to those awarded by certain countries or for special forces. Many campaign medal groups will also include gallantry awards too, and the latter involve remarkable stories of heroism.
- For more information, read ATG’s in-depth guide to military medals
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Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross winners in sale spotlights
14 December 2020Two Victoria Cross medals awarded during the Indian Mutiny offered by Morton & Eden (20% buyer’s premium) in London sold to the same buyer.
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Hughie Green took his flying opportunity
14 December 2020Hughie Green (1920-97) is well known as star of film, radio and TV, such as Opportunity Knocks – and a colourful personal life such as being father to Paula Yates. However, he also had a long and eventful career in aviation.
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Falklands War honours fetch six figures
14 December 2020The Falklands War was 38 years ago now. However, for medal collectors the conflict is very much in mind, as evidenced by two six-figure results recently at London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb (24% buyer’s premium).
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Museum buys memorial plaque of Great War’s ‘first black officer’
14 November 2020The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) has bought a First World War ‘dead man’s penny’ memorial plaque.
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Remembering the Great War’s ‘first black officer’
02 November 2020A First World War ‘dead man’s penny’ memorial plaque awarded to a soldier believed to be the first black officer commissioned into a British army regiment during the conf lict and the first black officer casualty is coming up at auction.
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Very early Victoria Cross awarded for Crimean War gallantry features in London auction
01 October 2020One of the earliest Victoria Crosses ever awarded is coming to auction at London specialist saleroom Dix Noonan Webb.
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US hero given British honour
28 September 2020As heroic a defence against the odds as Rorke’s Drift, and certainly more important, the twin battles of Imphal and Kohima are much less well known.
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Iraq veteran’s Military Cross sells for £36,000
21 September 2020A Military Cross group awarded to a soldier who carried a fallen comrade through fierce gunfire in Iraq sold at £36,000 (plus 20% buyer ’s premium) in Macclesfield on September 11.
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Military Cross awarded to Iraq war hero sells at Adam Partridge
18 September 2020Military medals from recent conflicts continue to attract great interest at auction, even if it is a great shame that veterans from these wars have to sell their medals during their own lifetime.
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African American battalion medal from American Civil War comes to auction in Wiltshire
02 September 2020This rare award, a Colored Troops Medal or Butler Medal of 1864, comes for sale at the Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour Militaria at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on September 23 with an estimate of £8000-12,000.
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Pick of the week: Archive of Alec Forbes – the man who made Victoria Crosses – brings bidding at Bonhams
31 August 2020It is not unusual to see Victoria Crosses making huge sums at auction, but last week the man who made these medals of gallantry was the one in the spotlight.
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D-Day veteran who became an antiques dealer
03 August 2020John Vernon ‘Jack’ Webb (1923-2019) was destined to be a collector of medals and militaria. On June 5, 1944, he was on a troop ship preparing to take part in the D-Day landings.
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Bidding contest for Nelson letter from HMS Victory and medal group from Battle of the Nile
22 June 2020A signed memorandum letter sent by Nelson from HMS Victory to one of his captains sold for a mid-estimate £3200 at a recent TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium) auction in Diss in Norfolk.
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Medal awarded to Victorian soldier wounded at Rorke’s Drift sells to doctor at auction
22 June 2020A Zulu War medal awarded to a Victorian soldier severely wounded while fighting in the hospital building at Rorke’s Drift has been bought at auction – by a doctor.
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The other evacuation at the time of Dunkirk
22 June 2020The 80th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, aka the Dunkirk evacuation in May-June 1940, has been in the headlines recently. However, less well known is the fate of the British 51st Highland Division almost 100 miles further along the French coast.
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Raid on eBay seller's 'fake medal factory' run from garden shed leaves market reeling
15 June 2020A trading standards investigation has unearthed a ‘medal factory’ in Derbyshire, sparking the fear that thousands of fake military awards and badges could be in circulation.
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Auction house Spink helps Captain Tom remount medal collection
06 June 2020Captain Tom’s full medal set has been remounted and re-presented to him following work by auction house Spink.
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Historic archive of Second World War floating harbour designer bought at auction by museum
24 March 2020An historic archive belonging to the engineer who oversaw the design of the Mulberry Harbours in the Second World War has been bought by a museum after being offered at Mitchells’ auction last week.
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Lancer lots charge into auctions
16 March 2020The Crimea medal awarded to one of only two officers taken prisoner by the Russians during the calamitous Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 sold for £14,000 at London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb (25% buyer’s premium).
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Militaria: A woman's fight to serve
16 March 2020Before British female nurses could even help with the wounded they faced a battle to be accepted, as the story behind a medal winner reveals.
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