Than you for the update, Sir! Those of us who haven't been around long enough to have gotten one of the first issue will continue to wait anxiously for the opportunity to again acquire a GAF Medal!
And my Heartiest Best Wishes for a speedy full recovery!
All this talk of
medals reminds me that I must get around to having appropriate mounts installed on a number of reproduction Victorian-era British medals I have accumulated. Would add a degree of downright
splendiforousness to the chest of Maj. Robson when in Dress Uniform, dinna ye think?
I
wouldn't wear the Victoria Cross, of course, but the various campaign medals would fit the
persona nicely ... then, as now, one was awarded such medals merely for having served "in theater" (even in an office somewhere) so wearing these wouldn't constitute a claim to have actually fought in any of the related battles .... please, no wisecracks about appearing to be old enough for that to be a possibility, by the way ...
I should add that the Khedive's Star isn't a British medal, of course, but was awarded by the Khedive of Egypt to all British Army and Navy personnel who participated in the suppression of the Egyptian Rebellion of 1882 - authorized for wear only in conjunction with the Egypt Medal (blue/white ribbon) beside it ...