DH Medal Ribbons 1917 - Bassano Collection

[sjustice]

Hello All,

Here is one of the relatively well known © National Portrait Gallery photographs of Douglas Haig taken by Alexander Bassano (Bond Street, London) in a sitting on 16 January 1917. I have two questions for the Medals Forum:

1) Can you tell me (in order, left to Right as shown) precisely what medals and awards are depicted by the ribbons

2) Why the two rows are in that order.

Many thanks!

Simon

[scottmarchand]

 

medals are worn in order of precedence as established by the crown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders,_decorations,_and_medals_of_the_United_Kingdom

[sjustice]

Hi ScottM,

Thanks for the effort. It's interesting that in some depictions the sets appear to be transposed.

I really need to have confirmed which awards are definitely present at this sitting as shown. I think it's a big 'ask' but can anyone give the detail from personal expertise?

Cheers,

Simon

[Andrew Upton]

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30097353

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20746

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zKsxn4Od4Uw/Tj1q3ZlhSoI/AAAAAAAAD5g/NB2n5iyL_eE/s220/bennet.jpg

http://postimg.org/image/g01d5g2s5/full/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Haig,_1st_Earl_Haig

These are the medals as worn by Haig in Orpen's May 1917 portrait of Haig:

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE), Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), Delhi Durbar Medal, Queen's Sudan Medal, Queen's South Africa Medal, King's South Africa Medal, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (I believe), Croix de guerre, Khedive's Sudan Medal.