A HANDBOOK OF BRITISH & FOREIGN ORDERS, WAR MEDALS & DECORATIONS AWARDED TO THE ARMY AND NAVY by Payne, A.A., LRCP, MRCS

Sheffield 1911, privately published, 7 x 10, good cond ( heavy wear to extremities, top edge of spine torn and worn hinges weak, original blue cloth with gilt decorations. ) Scarce reference work, worth a rebind. 811 pp, numerous portraits of Officers, and of Orders & medals. Hundreds of officers and other ranks who have rec'd medals and decorations are listed, along with descriptions of British campaign medals & awards from the earliest through the 1908 Indian General Service. Also Regimental medals, Life Saving and more, & foreign awards. Biographies of over 500 men with the medals they were awarded.