Hi,
I have been a member of the British Medals Forum for about 5 years but have only really got into my stride in the last year when it occurred to me how much knowledge I could tap into. I have been interested in and collected medals since about 1972 when I was in the RAAF first as an apprentice later an airman and eventually as a Squadron Leader. I have published three books- namely South Australians and the South African war which was about 30 pages listing as many South Australians as I could find and cross-referred to 1st AIF service where possible. In 1987 I wrote Mentioned in Despatches Australians WW1 over 5600 entries completed by trawling through about 6 years of Commonwealth Gazettes and written on index cards-pre computer days. Then I wrote The Australian Commonwealth Horse in 1989. I have had in my time a reasonable collection of Australian QSA but just recently I purchased the 3 bar QSA to Lt Alfred Lascelles Royal Horse Artillery who died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein on the 16th of May 1900. He is my current project and is a gold mine of potential.
I have been a member of the British Medals Forum for about 5 years but have only really got into my stride in the last year when it occurred to me how much knowledge I could tap into. I have been interested in and collected medals since about 1972 when I was in the RAAF first as an apprentice later an airman and eventually as a Squadron Leader. I have published three books- namely South Australians and the South African war which was about 30 pages listing as many South Australians as I could find and cross-referred to 1st AIF service where possible. In 1987 I wrote Mentioned in Despatches Australians WW1 over 5600 entries completed by trawling through about 6 years of Commonwealth Gazettes and written on index cards-pre computer days. Then I wrote The Australian Commonwealth Horse in 1989. I have had in my time a reasonable collection of Australian QSA but just recently I purchased the 3 bar QSA to Lt Alfred Lascelles Royal Horse Artillery who died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein on the 16th of May 1900. He is my current project and is a gold mine of potential.