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    Medal - But What??

    OK Team,
    Another one that I have no idea of where to start.
    Any information will be gratefully received.
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      3 and last.
      Best Regards,
      Mark
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        Medal - But What??

        U.M.S. = Uniformed Military Services?? Not found here: http://medals.nzdf.mil.nz/info/wearingmedals.html
        Last edited by MilitaryCollect; 06-15-2009, 05:18 PM.

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          #5
          I don't believe this is a KIWI medal at all - this was given to an NZ soldier by a German POW...
          Mark

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            #6
            ill try one more time

            Albatrosses have been described as "the most legendary of all birds".[31] An albatross is a central emblem in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; a captive albatross is also a metaphor for the poète maudit in a poem of Charles Baudelaire. It is from the poem that the usage of albatross as a metaphor is derived; someone with a burden or obstacle is said to have 'an albatross around their neck', the punishment given in the poem to the mariner who killed the albatross. In part due to the poem, there is a widespread myth that sailors believe it disastrous to shoot or harm an albatross; in truth, however, sailors regularly killed and ate them,[18] but they were often regarded as the souls of lost sailors. The Maoris used the wing bones of the albatross to carve their ceremonial tattoos into their skin.

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              #7
              Thanks Juoneen,
              I'm leaning towards marine of some type as well "***** Marine Service"?
              The albatross(?) also seem to be on an anchor motif??
              Mark
              Last edited by NZMark; 06-19-2009, 12:05 AM.

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