FAMILY MEDALS
These are medals to close family members and hopefully will be passed along in the future.

Volunteer Long Service Medal, awarded for 20 years service.
This medal is un-named but is purported to have been awarded
to my great-grandfather William Cochrane White

Defence Medal awarded to my mother, Elizabeth Adams White, for service
in civil defence as a switchboard operator during the London Blitz

Group of Medals awarded to my father James Harrison White.  The first four (1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal and
War Medal 1939-45) are for service during World War II.   He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as a Costing Clerk,
with all service in headquarters units.  He arrived in France in the aftermath of the Normandy landings and travelled on with
General Montgomery's mobile headquarters through Belgium to Germany.  He received a commendation from General Montgomery,
as indicated by the bronze leaf on the War Medal.    The fifth medal is Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee Medal for Canada, awarded in
1977 for civic service and for his international interactions, as recommended by Tommy Douglas, MP

Unofficial group of three belonging to James Harrison White.  The first two are medals by purchase
of a type that began to appear in the 1980's    These are commemorative in nature but are in theory
only avaiable to those who demonstrate that they are eligible.  The first is "The Army".  The second
is for the Normandy Campaign.    The third medal is semi-official and possibly awarded by the Frenvh
Government, and known as the Medal of a Liberated France.  (See a fuller description of this medal
farther down this page).

This space is reserved for the group awarded to my only uncle, Wilfred Gilchrist White, for service in World War II.  He served in REME during the war as a technician. This is a "made-up" group of genuine un-named medals.
The actual group is held by my sister Maureen in British Columbia

This space is reserved for an image of the group awarded to my father-in-law Henry Burton MacPhee, for service in World War II and afterwards in the peace-time army.  He served in the infantry in the war.  He was in Japan in the latter stages of the Korean Conflict and went on to serve in Halifax in the RCEME and Engineers until retirement in the early 70's.

plus two unofficial medals.

Note that the SMC Emergency Medal is not attached to the bar, and is not verified to be Wheeler's.

India General Service Medal (silver) with bar Hazara 1888, India Medal (silver) with bar Relief of Chitral 1895,
Queen's Sudan Medal (silver), and China War Medal 1900 (silver)

This group is an enigma.   It is highly unlikely that this is a genuine group but the medals in it are undoubtedly genuine,
with the exception of the Distinguished Flying Cross.  The DFC is not marked as a copy, but it surely cannot be real.
A completely genuine Battle of Britain group would be worth a great deal.  This group does have value, especially
with the Air Crew Europe Star, which alone has a value of over $300. 

RCMP LONG SERVICE MEDAL, King George V, to P Spurgeon

Medal of a liberated France (French: "Médaille de la France libérée")

This French medal was originally presented to foreigners who had made significant contributions to the liberation of France, and as well to French citizens who did the same.    In the years up to the 1990's this medal was restricted in actual award to just a few outstanding individuals; however as the years have gone on it has become available to the rank and file who liberated France.   It is hard to say whether this more general availability is by the French government, or it is possibly a more commercial endeavour capitalizing on this stated official eligibility:
To soldiers of the allied armies who participated in war operations on the soil of Metropolitan France or soil under French mandate between 3 September 1939 and 20 August 1945
In any event, this medal is not on the list of medals that can be worn by Canadians or British servicemen or veterans with official medals.  My father, who participated in the Normandy campaign, has this medal on a secondary bar, that could in theory be worn on the right breast.

The opposition to the North Korean invasion of South Korea took place under the umbrella of the United Nations   Those who took part received a medal from the United Nations, and usually as well one from their own countries.   The UN medal was issued in several languages, and some versions are shown here.  Note that the British and Commonwealth medals for Korean service are shown in the previous section.

UN Peacekeeping forces from a wide variety of countries began to be deployed in large numbers in 1956 in response to the Suez Crisis between Egypt and Israel.  This first peacekeeping endeavour was called the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), and a medal was issued by the UN to the participants.   At the time this was thought to be a "one-off" mission, but in the years to come other peace-keeping missions were deployed, and this has seemingly accelerated over time. Eventually the UN began to issue a standard medal, based on the UNEF medal.  The first issue was retroactive for UNTSO and UNOGIL and had a blue ribbon with two narrow white stripes. When the next mission (ONUC) was deployed, to the Congo, its personnel received the medal with the same ribbon but with a Congo bar. It appears that the plan was to consistently use this same medal and ribbon for future missions, but with a different bar.  In 1963 that plan was discarded and an entirely different ribbon was issued for ONUC.  Since then each UN mission has had a new and different ribbon, but the medal has remained the same. Note however that the medal does come in a flatter type than the one shown here that all have a more rounded globe in the middle.  Later the UN Service Medal was also issued to personnel who served at the UN Headquarters in New York, with a plain blue ribbon.    This collection you see below was gathered together in the 1980's and represents almost all UN missions up that time.   Since then there have been many more.  These medals are all issued unnamed and can be obtained commercially.  They do each have value of at least $35 Canadian in 2020; however the value of the set below is enhanced somewhat by the fact that this is an assembled collection.

UNTEA

Italy: Commemorative Cross for the Operations in the Persian Gulf