> > For USA Medals: > > > > http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/ > > > > You may request replacement medals and military records through this > > site. > > > > SHARON Zingery <szingery@sbcglobal.net> > > Thanks Sharon. This is for UK medals, though, and the rules are very > different here. > > "Tony Proctor" <tony_proctor@aimtechnology_NoMoreSPAM_.com> I'm surprised that some fellow who served in a British Army Unit in Korea hasn't jumped in here to say something about the Korea Medal and the UN medal for Korea. I served in Korea with a Canadian Infantry Battalion, which was part of the 1st Commonwealth Division, of which the KSLI was a part. My medals, the Korea Medal and the UN Medal were issued with my Number Rank Name Unit inscribed on the rims of those medals. Anyone who was "Mentioned in Dispatches", the bottom award for bravery, at the time, would have a palm leaf as an attachment to the riband of the Korea Medal. I am NOT going to try and describe the replacement procedures for these medals for Canada as any other countries replacement procedures are totally irrelevant. As for the tracing of the medals in the UK, his unit of the time, would have published in their daily orders the award of the medal or medals to which he would have been entitled. He would then and only then, be entitled wear the riband of the awarded medal. The physical medal would arrive in his hands from some central source, his to shine and polish on a continuing basis, in order that his Army tormentors would stay off his back. Terrence Flanagan Halifax, Nova Scotia "Terry Flanagan" <dotterry@accesswave.ca>