The reverse a set of miniature medals consisting of two First World War campaign medals; the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the Special Constable Long Service and Good Conduct Medal awarded Major Theophilus Garfield Skyrme retired. These miniature versions of medals are designed to be worn with formal evening wear.

This is a set of First World War miniature orders and medals on a chain. They show, from the front and viewing from left to right, the French Legion of Merit, the French Croix de guerre, the French Academic Palms, the Serbian Order of the White Eagle with Swords, the Greek Order of the Redeemer, the Greek Order of George I, and the French medal of the Orient. The set likely belonged to a French officer, as it was common to have the highest orders from ones own country on the left of a set of medals, then orders from other countries, and then the lower-ranked medals on the end, right-side of the set. The Serbian and Greek orders and then the Orient medal seem to indicate these were for an officer who had seen service in the Balkans during the First World War. || French Legion of Merit. French Croix de guerre. French Academic Palms. Serbian Order of the White Eagle with Swords. Greek Order of the Redeemer. Greek Order of George I. the French medal of the Orient.

Set of postcards of Serbian Field Marshal Radomir Putnik Radomir Putnik was Serbia’s first Field Marshal. A career soldier of long standing, he was originally forced to retire by the King Alexander Obrenovic in 1895 for political reasons. When the Obrenovic’s were overthrown in the bloody, regicidal May Coup of 1903, Putnik was rehabilitated by the incoming King Peter, of the Karageorge Royal House. He led the Serbian Army to victory in both the First and Second Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 respectively. When the First World War began, Putnik was undergoing medical treatment in Austro-Hungary at the time, though Emperor Franz Josef granted him safe passage back to Serbia. When he returned, Putnik tried to resign from the Army on the grounds of ill health, but King Peter insisted on having him on the General Staff to oversee the strategic work of the other Generals. Putnik therefore had an important hand in the successful Battles of Cer and Kolubara, both in 1914. By autumn 1915, the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian Armies attacked Serbia from all sides simultaneously, and Putnik was forced to lead the strategic retreat in the winter of 1915 that would see the Serbian Army withdraw through Albania and to the coast and thereon to Corfu for rehabilitation, recovery, and re-equipping. The Serbian Army returned on the Salonika Front in spring of 1916. This is a set of 24 postcards featuring the life and career of Putnik. Published in 1928 and edited by Brigadier-General Zivan Rankovic, the postcard packet reads ‘VOJSKA DOMOVINE’, which is Serbian for ‘Army of the Homeland’; also ‘VELIKI VOJNICI’, which means ‘Great Soldiers’. There is also a quote in Serbian Cyrillic from the poem/play ‘Mountain Wreath’ by the Prince-Bishop Petar Petrovic-Njegos, which reads: ‘ТВОЈ ЋЕ ПРИМЕР УЧИТИ ПЈЕВАЧА КАКО ТРЕБА С БЕСМРТНОШЋУ ЗБОРИТ’, which transliterates as ‘Tvoj ce primer uciti pjevaca kako treba s besmrtnoscu zborit.’, and which translates to ‘Your example will teach singers how one should speak of immortality’. The title also mentioned Putnik’s military title, that of ‘Vojvoda’ which, in Serbian, is Field Marshal. The postcards have short captions in Serbian Cyrillic. Putnik died of ill health in 1917 and, in 1918, Mount Putnik in Canada was named after him. || Packet containing 24 postcards about Serbian Field Marshal Radomir Putnik.