"Hero" Lieutenant Tunic.

[Will]

A tunic from my collection.....
Although it is a tunic for a Lieutenant, I was aware of the fact that children are allowed to wear the parent's medals. Thus it displays a number of awards that a young officer would not have earned himself.

[kliment]

Originally Posted by Will

A tunic from my collection.....
Although it is a tunic for a Lieutenant, I was aware of the fact that children are allowed to wear the parent's medals. Thus it displays a number of awards that a young officer would not have earned himself.

When the childrens are pupils in military schools it's indoubtely the case, but I'm not sure if they continued to wear the decorations when in the military.

[Esteban_cool]

Given all the photographic evidence seen to date, I assume they still use their ancestors´ awards together with their own.

[kliment]

Hello Esteban,
I have seen many pictures of pupils from the Mangyongdae or Nampo schools with a lot of decorations. But never junior officers with more than a few basic awards.

Btw, an new article (in Russian) about the uniforms of the Mangyongdai revolutionary school :
http://www.vedomstva-uniforma.ru/mundir1/chuchkhe.html

[Will]

In my collection reference library I have several books published in North Korea. I'll see if the many photos of decorated soldiers can give us any further information on this point.

[kliment]

The best thing to do :thumbsup