Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

Kingy said:

TBH, the foreground ones are all ‘after my time’. I can’t place them.

The background ones, which belong to the wearer’s antecedent, include (starting from 2nd from the left),

1939-45 Star

Africa Star

Italy Star

Defence Medal

War Medal

Would have to look up the first on the left, and the last two on the right.

I don’t see the Australian Service Medal there, so it’s likely that these belonged to a British service person.

I believe that the second from left in the background is the Battle of Britain medal.There were two of them on display today.

About 15 years ago, one of the fire vollies invited me to his house for a few drinks on a Friday. His dad was there as a chippy(carpenter), and during a random discussion, the topic came up of the Battle of Britain which he said that he saw. I stupidly asked which one, thinking about the various movies about it, and he explained that he was 7 years old when it happened. His mum took the family into the London underground to protect them from the bombing, but he was bored and climbed back out to watch all the planes in the sky and the explosions. His mum was not impressed, and came back out to drag him back underground.

Meanwhile today, there was also a Gallipoli beach landing medal, amongst others.

The medal second from left is quite definitely the 1939-45 Star.

While there is no ‘Battle of Britain’ medal, aircrew who completed at least one operational sortie with recognized RAF squadrons between 00:01 hours 10 July 1940 and 23:59 hours 31 October 1940, are entitled to a ‘Battle Of Britain’ clasp, which is worn attached to the ribbon of the 1939-45 Star.

This is rather a rare medal, as only about 2,900 were awarded.

I cannot identify the cross decoration at the left hand end, or th etwo medals at the right end, although the do seem a bit familiar.