12-11-2008, 02:42 PM
Taz, Rick,
Another piece to add to the puzzle. Last Saturday at the monthly Militaria Show here in Budapest I bought a White tunic for a Hungarian Diplomat circa 1980s. The following day I picked up the dress green uniform for the same diplomat. The green uniform had the standard plastic Hungarian ribbon bar pinned to it and I ignored it at the time as that kind of thing would probably not have been worn on the dress uniform. Yesterday, I took it off the uniform and started to write out the awards for reference purposes. The last of the seven awards on the bar appears to be the medal that started this thread. While this bar did not belong on a Diplomatic dress uniform it looks as though it certainly would be correct in the white every day tunic. It looks as though this award may have been made to other foriegn nationals as well as the Vietnamese. Have a look and see what you think.
Regards,
Gordon
Another piece to add to the puzzle. Last Saturday at the monthly Militaria Show here in Budapest I bought a White tunic for a Hungarian Diplomat circa 1980s. The following day I picked up the dress green uniform for the same diplomat. The green uniform had the standard plastic Hungarian ribbon bar pinned to it and I ignored it at the time as that kind of thing would probably not have been worn on the dress uniform. Yesterday, I took it off the uniform and started to write out the awards for reference purposes. The last of the seven awards on the bar appears to be the medal that started this thread. While this bar did not belong on a Diplomatic dress uniform it looks as though it certainly would be correct in the white every day tunic. It looks as though this award may have been made to other foriegn nationals as well as the Vietnamese. Have a look and see what you think.
Regards,
Gordon
