Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War ‘Civil Division’ B.E.M. group of twenty-one awarded to Mr. W. W. Węglewski, Polish Forces

Poland, Republic, Order of Polonia Restituta, Fourth Class breast badge, gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Order of Polonia Restituta, Fifth Class breast badge, gilt and enamel; SPK Combatant’s Cross, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘3.5.87 W. W. Weglewski 21.8.87’; Cross of Merit, silvered and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘3.5.1971 W. W. Węglewski Londyn’; Army Medal, bronze, with two Additional Award oak leaf Bars on riband; Air Force Medal, silvered, lacking all enamel, the reverse engraved ‘193860 W. W. Węglewski’, with three Additional Award oak leaf Bars on riband; Cross of Merit, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Walter Wladyslaw Węglewski London 11th November 1970’; SPK Veterans’ Cross, gilt; SPK Cross for the Campaign of September 1939, silvered, the reverse engraved ‘0312 Choi Lot W. W. Węglewski’; SPK Veterans’ Cross, silvered-bronze; Great Britain, British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Walter Wladyslaw Weglewski); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these four all engraved ‘793860 W. W. Weglewski’; European Confederation of Combat Veterans Cross, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Walter Wladyslaw Węglewski 1976’; Belgium, Kingdom, Commemorative Cross of the Royal Federation of Veterans of King Albert I of Belgium, gilt, with bronze, silver, and gold palms on riband; France, Fifth Republic, Combatant’s Cross, gilt; Combat Volunteer’s Cross 1939-45, gilt, the reverse engraved ‘5145 W. W. W. 59452’; War Medal 1939-45, gilt, 2 clasps, Liberation, France, mounted court-style for wear; together with a Hungarian Veterans’ Order, Second Class set of insignia, comprising neck badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Walter W. Weglewski W.1.82’; and breast Star, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Walter Wladyslaw Weglewski 27.6.1982’, a number of the awards of modern manufacture, generally nearly very fine and better (22) £600-£800

B.E.M. London Gazette 12 June 1976: Walter Wladyslaw Weglewski. For services to the community, State of New South Wales, Australia.