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Extremely rare royal Danish medal awarded

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September 16, 2015 at 5:00 pm #12926

danish
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The Royal Medal of Recompense is in 8 levels.
The medal is the monarchs private medal to award for services. The lowest lever, silver, is normally awarded after 50 years of consecutive service in the same private company (This says a bit about the rarity of the medal, with this being the entry level requirements).

The highest level; Medal in Gold with Crown and Inscription is EXTREMELY rare. The last awarding was in 1993 and all the living recipients can be counted on one hand.
The medal have been awarded to Denmarks first astronaut today September 16th, Andreas Mogensen.

See pictures here:
http://kongehuset.dk/Menu/nyheder/astro … rone-og-in

September 17, 2015 at 2:46 am #17566

Frank Dutil
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Nice, thanks for sharing.

September 19, 2015 at 7:55 pm #17567

danish
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You’re welcome.
It surprised me a bit..

I actually though he would be knighted into the Order of Dannebrog.
But makes good sense. The orders are only for long periods of service – Maybe he’ll get it if he goes up a couple of more times..
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The only information appearing to be available for this unclaimed clasp can be found in the London Gazette issue of 1849, where the approved NGS clasps were published:

Boats of ‘Fawn’ under Lieut. Morgan. Action with cutter and schooner ‘Guadaloupe’, and capture.

A search of the Navy List from 1793-1815 reveals a total of 18 commissioned officers with the surname of Morgan. Of these, 9 have a Lieutenant’s commission date after 25 July 1809 or died before that date and can be ruled out. Of the remaining, three died between 1817-22 before receiving a promotion and must also be ruled out. Out of the remaining six, four have entries in either Marshall’s or O’Byrne’s Naval Biographies, two with service records, but these two do not mention anything about the action, which would be highly unlikely if it resulted in the man’s promotion. This leaves four potential candidates, one being promoted as late as 1827, he is probably not the man. The remaining three were promoted to Commander between 1814-16, and could all have been the man in charge. Unfortunately, all died between 1817-43, and it’s not likely much biographical information on either of them can be found.


Name	Lieut	Cmd	Died
MORGAN, John Fortescue	15 Sep 1806	12 Oct 1814	9 Dec 1843
MORGAN, Thomas	10 May 1809	16 Nov 1814	Apr 1843
MORGAN, Charles	15 Jun 1781	1 Jan 1816	1817
MORGAN, James (1)	2 Sep 1783	25 Apr 1827	1835

One would have to search the muster books for HMS Fawn to identify who the Lieutenant was.