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Download or read book Grandad's Medals written by Tracy Duncan and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2005 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love my grandad. We have lots of fun together." Every year Grandad marches in the Anzac Day parade and wears his medals, walking proudly beside his old comrades. But this year Grandad's best mate is too sick to walk and the number of old soldiers still marching is getting smaller. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Download or read book Grandad's Medals written by Tracy Duncan and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I love my granddad. We have lots of fun together.' Every year Grandad marches in the Anzac Day parade and wears his medals, walking proudly beside his old comrades. But this year Grandad's best mate is too sick to walk and the number of old soldiers still marching is getting smaller.
Download or read book Peter's Medals written by Brian Clark and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944 Peter Gayford, at the age of seventeen, rescues an airman from a crashed USAAF bomber. The Americans give him a medal. In June, army trucks pass his home; Peter joins them and drives a truck over the Channel to France on D Day. Peter has a dead soldier’s paybook. His truck is blown up and with multiple burns he is unconscious for days and on return is identified as this man. Difficulties arise when he meets the dead soldier’s family. Romance develops between Peter, his nurse, the dead soldier’s widow and her mother. Peter eventually receives more medals for his gallantry including a Purple Heart for rescuing an American GI. The story ends with Peter marrying the dead soldier’s widow.
Book Synopsis American War Medals and Decorations by : Evans E. Kerrigan
Download or read book American War Medals and Decorations written by Evans E. Kerrigan and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a guide to many medals, decorations, badges, and awards conferred throughout the history of the United States.
Book Synopsis Collecting Military Medals by : Colin Narbeth
Download or read book Collecting Military Medals written by Colin Narbeth and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The background to collecting military medals is inseparable from a study of history. The earliest British medals, as befits a nation for so long reliant upon naval strength for its independence, were issued to the Navy, beginning with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The first true campaign medals awarded to the Army followed the Battle of Waterloo, although many had been issued privately and unofficially before this. As one would expect for a country like Britain, with an outstanding imperial history dating to modern times, a vast field of military medals covering service in Africa, India, and China awaits the attention of the collector. There are, too, the collections relating to major wars, including the Crimean War, Boer War and the two World Wars. Colin Narbeth describes the medals awarded, and the actions which gave rise to special bars, ribbons and stars. Orders and decorations, including the Victoria Cross and the George Cross, both awarded for extreme valor, are described as are the naming of medals and display. As well as this wealth of background information, the author also details the aims to which a new collector should aspire, and discusses the pitfalls to guard against, including the problem of identification of forgeries. The volume is illustrated with numerous photographs selected by the author.
Book Synopsis The Medals of Our Fighting Men by : Stanley Currie Johnson
Download or read book The Medals of Our Fighting Men written by Stanley Currie Johnson and published by London : A. & C. Black. This book was released on 1917 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions Conferred on the British Navy, Army & Auxiliary Forces by : George Tancred
Download or read book Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions Conferred on the British Navy, Army & Auxiliary Forces written by George Tancred and published by Spink & Son. This book was released on 1891 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War Medals and Decorations by : D. Hastings Irwin
Download or read book War Medals and Decorations written by D. Hastings Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Shower of Stars by : John J. Pullen
Download or read book A Shower of Stars written by John J. Pullen and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1941 the Medal of Honor has been more often awarded to dead than to living men. Of all the medals issues by the United States Government, this singular medal has had a particularly solemn glory attached to its meaning. But a look at its history reveals that, from its inception, it was steeped in controversy, with threats to its integrity swirling in from all sides. Author John. J. Pullen, during the course of research on the 20th Maine, came across an obscure note indicating that the 27th Maine, a group of nine-month volunteers from York Country, had been issued 864 Medals of Honor—one for every member of the regiment—while the 20th main, having distinguished itself at Little Round Top, garnered only four such medals. Was this discovery the beginning of an untold story of extraordinary bravery, or was it an outrageous blunder? Civil War literature yielded nothing about this wholesale “shower of stars” that had rained down upon the little-known regiment. And, as Pullen tracked down its descendants, he found very little information on the whereabouts of those medals. Thus, a mystery was born. After sifting through piles of War Department documents, as well as letters and diaries found in Maine’s “unofficial archives,” Pullen begins to pieces together a puzzle that had already ensnared many, from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to such notable figures as Theodore Roosevelt. The hero of this story, however, is Colonel Mark F. Wentworth, the commander of the 27th Maine and later of the 32nd Maine, who thwarted the forces that threatened ignominy on the Medal of Honor, and revealed the true character of valor. “The author has written a fascinating, leisurely book, often disarming in its personal approach to unraveling his mystery” – E. B. Long, Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World by : John Clarke
Download or read book Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World written by John Clarke and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
Book Synopsis The Medal Collector by : Stanley Currie Johnson
Download or read book The Medal Collector written by Stanley Currie Johnson and published by London : H. Jenkins. This book was released on 1921 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tartan Ringers by : Jonathan Gash
Download or read book The Tartan Ringers written by Jonathan Gash and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I like to think that, when feeling my way carefully through the rituals of passion, the lady in question has pretty much my full attention and very few things will distract me from the job in hand. A murder just outside is one of them . . . The victim, and two other antiques dealers who also came to a sticky end, were all working the same Scottish connection that I had been cultivation, so I decided to make myself scarce for a while. Where better to hide than at the root of the problem in the wilds of Scotland? There may be nothing very Scottish about me but, when my life's on the line, I can blend into the Highlands like a haggis in the heather. It was also the best place to find out why the antiques trade down south had become such a dangerous business.
Book Synopsis War Medals and Their History by : William Augustus Steward
Download or read book War Medals and Their History written by William Augustus Steward and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brother Fish written by Bryce Courtenay and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drama of three lives brought together - Jack McKenzie is a small- time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a gang leader. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea.
Book Synopsis Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy by : John Horsley Mayo
Download or read book Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy written by John Horsley Mayo and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Leader Down written by Ken Catran and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YA thriller about a teen discovering the truth of his grandfather's terrible past as a World War Two fighter pilot. When 17-year-old Matt dreams that he is a World War Two pilot in a dogfight against the Germans, something strange happens. Was it a dream? Because later that morning, the family gets news that Grandad died at exactly that time, 3.15 a.m. This is the beginning of a bewildering set of adventures, into which Matt is plunged. At Grandad's funeral, two of his old squadron mates turn up and he becomes aware that something that happened in the last days of the war, to do with the death of his Squadron Leader, Jingo Brook. After the funeral, Grandad's house is trashed. With the help of a local 'bad boy' Matt discovers who did it and what was taken — his grandad's log books and journal from World War Two. The second part of the novel is Grandad's story, told in the first person, when he was a little older than Matt. He joins a Tempest ground-attack fighter squadron, operating in Germany, in the last months of the war. Matt, financed by his grandad's estate, goes to Europe and, on the banks of a northern Holland canal finds the evidence that clears his grandfather's name. Now the skies above are blue and quiet but he has won his Grandad's last victory.
Book Synopsis British Campaign Medals 1815-1914 by : Peter Duckers
Download or read book British Campaign Medals 1815-1914 written by Peter Duckers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of imperial expansion, British forces were almost constantly in action against major powers, in wars of conquest, or in expeditions on the fringes of Empire, such as the North West Frontier, southern Africa or Burma. This book outlines the medals issued to British soldiers and sailors for military service.
