Excerpt from British Military and Naval Medals and Decorations Among the rare and valuable collections of war medals and decorations which have been gathered together, that in the United Service Museum may be mentioned as containing many uncommon examples. In the British Museum many of the early special presentation medals are deposited. The private collections of K. Stewart Mackenzie, Esq, of Seaforth, Major J. Lawson Whalley, j.p., Lancaster, and Edward Hyde Greg, Esq., Cheshire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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