A Rare Irish Merchant Service Medal 1939-1946 Archive He was graded a Batman

He was graded a Batman & Orderly and posted to the RCAF Station at Camp Borden

while one lives well back from the line in a comfortable billet

and had difficulties walking afterwards

to entice ernstwhile Military Policement into the 1st Airborne Provost Company

A Rare Irish Merchant Service Medal 1939-1946 Archive He was graded a Batman(AKA Merchant Marine Medal and Merchant Navy Medal): Bronze, obverse illustrating a female figure of Ireland holding a sword, with an Irish wolf hound on a leash at her side, inscribed "RE NA PRAINNE" (Emergency Period) above and engraver marked "LAVRENCE CAMPBELL. R. H. A.", reverse illustrating a steamship sailing to the left, with a sailing ship in the background, surrounded by the inscription "AN TSEIRBHIS MUIR TRACTALA" (The Merchant Marine