British and Canadian Military Medal Links

The following is a list of helpful medal and militaria research sites and dealers which can assist you in uncovering further information about medals and militaria in your collections or assist you with acquiring new items.

The National Archives and London Gazette

The National Archives Documents Online

DocumentsOnline allows you access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including WW1 Campaign medal roll index, World War Two medals issued to merchant seamen and recommendations for honours and awards from 1935 to 1980

The National Archives The Catalogue

The Catalogue contains 9.5 million descriptions of documents from the UK central government, courts of law and other UK national bodies, including records on family history including military records of service personnel

London Gazette

Published By Authority. Official Newspaper of Record for the UK and a modern, efficient way to disseminate and record official, regulatory and legal information in print, online and electronic forms. A Great electronic tool for confirming medal entitlements.

National Archives of Canada

Soldiers of the First World War – CEF

The CEF database is an index over over 600,000 Canadian personnel who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. The CEF database is an index to those personnel files, which are held by Library and Archives Canada. To date, over 800,000 images of Attestation papers have been scanned and are being made available on-line.

Soldiers of the South African War (1899 - 1902)

A total of 7,368 Canadians and 12 Nursing Sisters served in South Africa during the Boer War. This research tool brings together three groups of records pertaining to the South African War: the service files, medal registers and land grant applications.

War Diaries of the First World War

This database contains the digitised War Diaries of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units.

Medal Research and Discussion

Orders and Medals Research Society (United Kingdom)

OMRS exists to promote a general interest in the study of orders, decorations and medals and to actively encourage and publish research into all aspects of civil and military medals, with a particular focus on those issued by Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. OMRS is comprised of an outstanding and highly dedicated medal collecting community.

British Medal Forum

The British Medal Forum is dedicated to the collection and sharing of information on British, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian, South African and all Commonwealth Medals. It is an outstanding resource to register your medal interest, find information on a medal or recipient, find medals to broken groups and display your collection.

Medal Dealers & Auctioneers

Aberdeen Medals

This is a well-stocked site with a wide variety of higher quality gallantry and Victorian campaign medal groups, as well as an excellent selection of modern campaign awards, with good coverage of Scottish and Indian units. He provides knowledgeable and professional service, and top notch research as well.

Arctic Medals

Arctic Medals is a quality source of Military Medals, Badges and Insignia from The British Commonwealth with emphasis on Canadian and British Items.

Bonahms (Glendinngs)

Auctioneer of Collectible Coin, Military Medals and Banknotes

Dix Noonan Webb

Specialist Auctioneers and Valuers in Medals and Coins

Dixons Medals

Established fo almost 40 years, Dixons Medals are a large and well regarded dealer in British Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals. They also publish a quarter catologue - The Dixon Gazette.

Cultman Collectibles

Cultman Collectibles specialise in militaria particularly military medals and badges but we also have a growing list of police insignia and other collectables.

eMedals

eMedals is a web-based mail order business owned and operated by Barry Trurk in Burlington, Ontario. eMedals offers an extensive and varied selction of orginal, fine quality orders, decorations, medals, badges and military collectibles.

Eugene Ursual Military Antiquarian Inc.

Eugene G. Ursual, Military Antiquarian Inc is a web-based mail oredr business owned and operated by Eugene and Tanya Ursual in Kemptville, Ontario. Eugenen G Ursual has been a source for high quality military antiques for 30 years.

Liverpool Medals

With over 30 years experience as a medal dealer, the Liverpool Medal Company are renowned specialists in the medal collecting world. Whatever your requirements British or Foreign, they are sure to hold much of interest!

Neate Auctions

Having established a retail business in 1983, Gary Neate has transformed medal collecting by offering an online medal auction of the highest standard to compliment the pleasure of collecting. No buyers premium.No online bidding fee. No credit card surcharges. Just great medal items.

Spink

The London-based dealer and auctioneer offers a site of coins and banknotes, stamps, medals and militaria, and fine European, Indian and Islamic Art.

Vimy Militaria

Vimy Militaria is a web-based mail order business owned and operated by Jim Godefroy. Jim has been a collector of Canadian medals and militaria since the early 1980s, and he decided, a few years ago, to turn his hobby into a business as well. He offers a constantly changing selection of British and Commonwealth medals from all periods, and specialize in medals to Canadians.

Warwick and Warwick

One of Britain's foremost public auctioneers of medals. They hold six sales each year which contain hundreds of collections and individual medals.

Wellington Auctions

Auctioneers of medals and militaria

British Medal Information and Other Links

British Medal Information

This web site has been created as a free online information resource for collectors, medal recipients, people in possession of family medals or indeed anyone who has an interest in British medals. Most medals featured are, by virtue of their numbers, military awards but the site also covers those awarded to the emergency services, civilians and certain volunteer organizations. There are also a small number of foreign medals listed that have over the years been issued to British recipients and have received official sanction for wear. The period covered by this site ranges from the earliest medals produced in the 1790’s to the present day.

Medals of the World

A site dedicated to orders, decorations and medals of the World

Medal News - Token Publishing

Token Publishing was established in 1983 to publish one title, Coin and Medal News - a Magazine that had been in existence in one form or another since 1964. In 1989 the title was split in two, forming Coin News and Medal News. In 1994 Token published their first Medal Yearbook and a year later published their first Coin Yearbook. They are now firmly established as one of the major numismatic publishers in the UK and their products are sold worldwide. They now publish three Yearbooks as well as two monthly magazines and a range of other titles for the coin, medal, banknote and military enthusiast.

Airforce Association of Canada

The Association is a national not-for-profit aerospace and community service organization composed of aviation-minded citizens established to remind Canadians of their country’s rich aeronautical tradition and history, to support Canada’s Air Force and to support and encourage the civil aviation component within the country. The site also maintains an RCAF Honours and Awards online database.