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1939 1945 star medal ribbon?
Hi,
My father has been trying to research various family medals from the Second World War.
We have found two 1939-1945 Star medals. Both of which seem to have the ribbon colours in reverse order. Ie the ribbons run from left as seen - pale blue/red/navy when all official sources suggest the ribbon colours should run navy/red/pale blue.
We are now wondering if there was some significance as having both in the wrong order seems to be too strange to be coincidence.
As far as we know the recipients never met.
Any information is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
@Blackgrumpycat
Hmm, interesting point about the Air Force colours first. I could find no info online either. Thanks for answering!
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- blackgrumpycatLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
It could just be that the medal was put on the wrong way around. There is an example here
http://militaryitems.com/store/index.php?main_page...
There is no explanation about the ribbon which suggests to me that there is no significance.
This is from the website below:
Equal stripes of dark blue to represent the service of the Royal and Merchant Navies, red, to represent that of the Armies and light blue to represent that of Air Forces. Worn with the dark blue stripe furthest from the left shoulder.
https://www.gov.uk/medals-campaigns-descriptions-a...
Again, nothing mentioned about a different order.
The only thought I have is that they were in the Air Force and wanted their colours first.
