Generals medal bar ?

[NBolinger]

I just picked up this brit medal bar wondering if it can be indentfied

[Teamski]

Wow, nice mini group!! Where did you get it, if you don't mind me asking?

-Ski

[NBolinger]

medal bar

I baught the bar at the max show this year, i owned it before and baught it back.LOL I believe it came off ebay a few years ago.

[Robert Shoaf]

A beautiful miniature group. The DSO & MC are not uncommon for WWI veteran officers, but the 4 foreign awards may help in identifying the recipient.
I have doubts if he was a general, unless he was a rapidly promoted temporary brigadier during the war. There are no pre-WWI medals, so he likely began the war as a junior officer, and there are no WWII medals in the group, so it would seem he had left the Army by 1939, or earlier. The GSM indicates post WWI service, so he probably was a regular officer, rather than a hostilities only officer, but I would expect WWII medals if he reached general's rank. I will do some additional research.

Bob Shoaf

[yellow]

Very difficult to trace indeed. The reason why the last WW2 group posted that included the Belgium medal would be easy to trace if we knew who
the regiment was because precious few Belgium medals were given to WW2 British soldiers. Even though this has far more medals included in the set it is possible that there could be several men with the same awards.

The highest point of interest in this group in the GSM with two bars. This is in fact the unqiue focal point of the whole group that may identify who the medals belonged.......not the foreign awards.

It will take a lot of work in a 1919, 1920 army list to establish who this man is. Hes not even forced to of belonged to a British Regiment..........could be to one of the allied nations. I am however guessing this is a British or Indian Army due to the 1914 Star. It would have to be a very rare group indeed if it were to a Canadian.

[Robert Shoaf]

I'm still trying to work on this, but haven't had much time. Of the five foreign medals, I believe two are French, and two are Belgian; not uncommon. However, the last medal is an Italian War Cross, awarded for one + years in the combat zone. This would lead me to believe that the recipient likely served in a British unit that was sent to Italy, following the disastrous Italian defeat at Caporetto in 1917. This should reduce the odds greatly; I will continue my efforts.

Bob Shoaf