British Distinguished Flying Cross - Replacement ?

[ml0880]

Best I could learn on this medal from appraisals
is "a poorly made European piece", possibly as
replacement. Cannot distinguish halmark as
SIGSIL or 51GSIL.
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Hose_dk]

25 years after world war I ended. I soppose that it a sort of medal. Picture of front could give an idea which country that gave these.

[admin]

STG.SIL. for sterling silver. May have been made elsewhere, but I've only ever seen that particular abbreviation on Australian made silver.

Regards, Tom

[byron mac donald]

Hi Ml-

I do not think it is a replacement, it seems to be a medal that refers to the first and second world wars. If as Tom has said that it may be Austrailian, then it would probably have something to do with a particular units service against Germany in both wars. I can not decipher the letters shown, are they GRL?. I do not know for sure, but if it is a unit citation then the quality would probably not be all that great even in its original form, it would have been more or less mass produced. If you could post another pic as Hose_dk has requested, I would love to try and find out what citation this is. (I love history)

Best wishes- Byron

[larkfield]

To me, the top stg sil part (held the ribbon) does not go with the bottom 925 stamped cross.

[ml0880]

Thank you one and all. I know this is suppose to be a British Distinguished Flying Cross from WW11 but two informal appraisals believed it to be not genuine and the only true expert I have approached felt that it was a possible private replacement as denoted by the "R", probably European made, but not original as the date style is wrong. The only tiny history I have says it was an Australian medal belonging to someone serving with the Royal Artillery during WW11, with an interesting sidenote saying he was "involved heavily with the black market". The ribbon attachment stamping is definately STGSIL for sterling as pointed out by Tom - thanks, and Byrons thoughts seem to support the small historyas being Australian, thanks again. So I guess there is no way to fully learn where, when, or by who this medal was made.

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[byron mac donald]

Hi ml-

I would say that is as real as it gets, "Distinguished Flying Cross" starting in 1918 issued to New Zealander junior officers and non-coms. Here is the story:

http://medals.nzdf.mil.nz/category/i/i10.html

If you google 'distinguished flying cross' and click on images you will find many more examples that look exactly like yours.

Regards- Byron