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From: Andrew Rodger <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Military Medals
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:48:40 +1000
In-Reply-To: <067301c4304a$6957ee60$6401a8c0@tscholtz>


The Africa Star was for service in North Africa during WW II, so it
would not have been shown on a cigarette card issued in 1941. My father
and my father-in-law both got it, and the letter from the Government to
my father-in-law notifying him of the award (with the 8th Army Clasp) is
dated November 1945 (a cyclostyled form filled in in blue-black ink with
a steel-nibbed pen, by the look of it). I don't know what happened to
my father's, it was not among my mother's effects when she died in 2002,
but it could easily have disappeared during her residence at an old
folks' home for the last few years of her life. She was so forgetful by
then that the opportunities for losing it would have been legion.

On Sunday, May 2, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Trevor Scholtz wrote:

> I have a cigarette card album entitled 'Medals and Decorations of the
> British Commonwealth of Nations" put out by the United Tobacco Co. of
> South
> Africa in about 1941.
>
> There is a colour picture of the Africa General Service Medal 1902.
>
> There are two Stars for service in SA but no Africa Star (Kimberly Star
> 1900; Star 1914)
>
> Are these of interest to you?
>
> Trevor Scholtz
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lucille Le Roux" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 8:22 AM
> Subject: [ZA] Military Medals
>
>
>> I would like to use pictures of the following medals in my family tree
> project.
>>
>>
>> 1939-1945 Star
>> Africa Star
>> Defence medal(British)
>> The war Medal 1039-1945
>> Africa Service Medal
>> 8th army clasp
>>
>> Where could I get a copy of a picture of these?
>> Is there a website or book?
>>
>> Lucille LeRoux
>>
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