Soviet Awards to non-Soviet personnel.

[Dave]

i saw this online at DNW auction house. i would of liked it for my collection but it was a bit expensive (£2,000-2,400 + auction fees)

i thought it look like a quite interesting cross over piece & apparently -


full details & a nice photo of the medals here -

Lot 1346, 18 September 2014 | Dix Noonan Webb

The British government was very, very hesitant about allowing their subjects to accept these awards. In fact, when I was working on my book, I tried to track down information from the Royal Navy (and several other sources) and got the "Uhhh...yeah...we don't know anything about these awards...and don't think anyone ever received them..." reply (several times). Not the end of the world...I got the Ukazes for the awards, and that was good enough for me.

Here is the Ukaz (as reported in the paper) for the Red Star to Mummery.

Dave

Sorry for the small images, but here's the list of Soviet awards as per the Ukazes that I had.

And the rest of the sheet. Note I didn't have a Russian-English dictionary handy when I did this, so some of these are not the best translations of ranks and so on (in fact, they were just transliterated as I couldn't remember for the life of me what the British equivalent was of the rank...)