I have a Dutch friend who used to be involved with the museum in Oosterbeek as a boy. He met lots of veterans who would give him various bits of militaria - mainly badges and medals. I've identified a few things for him, but others have got me stumped. Can anyone identify the blue badge with the stars? And does anyone recognise the medal ribbons and rifle badge? I have a bit of knowledge of medals and they are not British. Neither do I believe they are American as I have a Military Medals of the US book and cannot find those coloured ribbons. Also, the stars on US medals are 5 pointed. Are they Dutch maybe? Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi, Dutch Medal wise, I think we have: Info and pictures from this website: Orders Medals and Decorations of The Netherlands, Dutch Military Decorations and Royal Orders The purpose of this site is to connect orders, decorations and medals to the Netherlands military history from 1781. This sites brings together images and information from several other collections and sources. Keywords: OMD, Orders, Medals, decorations, For Sale, to Buy Mobilisation War Cross 1939 - Commemorative War Cross 1944- And possibly-Cross for Order and Peace 1947:
The badge above the medal ribbons is a US Army Combat Infantryman Badge (2nd Award) for any soldier that saw action in the Korean War.
