What were WW1 General Melchett's 10 Campaign Medals? 

So, he had several medals with a bar, but none with a drinks cabinet?

The incredible research the Blackadder team did. Respect!

General Melchett is also a Knight-Commander of the Honourable Order of the Mustache

It would be interesting to see Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond from Carry On Up the Khyber. They baubled him up so it would be curious if they got it right.

I like to think General Melchett was a capable and brave junior officer serving in Africa, India, and Afghanistan. But at some point he suffered a traumatic brain injury, and became somewhat doolally (as you Brits say). But because of his past record and family connections, continued to rise up through the ranks.

What a great concept - love Blackadder! Cheers from The Royal Danish Navy!

Blackadder Wiki gives this information: General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC, KCB, DSO. So the first crimson ribbon is for Victoria Cross. Full set of his medals can be seen in a scene where he is wearing a red evening uniform.

He wouldn’t like someone poo-pooing his medals

It would be great to see a video on Flashman’s medals!

The Ashantee medal could be the East & West Africa medal as it's exactly the same. If he was in Sierra Leone in 1887 & 1888 and then in Egyptian Sudan at Gemaizah or Tofrek, in 1889 the medal chronology actually works. Edit: Khedives Star issued 1882-1891 so that's ok as well!

I'd love to see your assessment of the medals of General Rufus d'Ascoyne from the 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets - as it's in black and white there is some room for interpretation, but we know he served in the Crimean War and fought 'the most calamitous campaign of the [first?] South African War'!

Thank you sir for another excellent video.

I love these but please consider raising the camera height to chin level.

Have you ever thought about the medals of Brigadier Lefbridge Stewart from ‘Doctor Who’?

Lovely video, Would love to know if LCpl Jones Medals from Dads army are accurate

Love this video, I will admit I check medals and ribbons on British military characters on tv and in films. One I would really like to see checked is Dr Donald Mallard in NCIS! (Season 3, episode 8, @40:56). Looks a bit suspect to me… Thanks!

When he is seen in mess dress in the episode Major Star "Sir Anthony" wears his star and neck-badge of Military Division KCB (exactly what one would expect for a three or four star general -then or even now) but does not (and would not) wear the neck badge of of his CVO, The fact the Royal Victorian order ribbon ranks senior to the DSO on the ribbon bar means it must be at least (probably is) grade III Commander Rank, because when in mess dress he did not wear a KCVO star, under WW1 regulations in that order of dress he would have worn both stars.

Do you also have a video in Major Darling??

@ClaspsofCourage... Please could you tell me what the medal board of 'Blakey' the jobsworth bus conductor from the once popular British tv series 'On the Buses' signify? Thankyou. I only found your channel, I love it and have subscribed.

Dear Speckle Jim. Bravest pigeon ever, never to be recognised.

Anyone got video of "Speckled Jim" on parade?

.Disappointed that you didn't attempt a Melchett "BMAAAAAAGHR!" Not sure of the spelling sorry

Coffee and cake? Tea and stickies, surely.

BAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Tactically talentless 😂. What is the scale of this map Darling? One to one sir.

So how many did not receive the 1914 medal due to being dead?

No idea why the Royal Victorian Order again! Both Flashheart and Melchett? The Royal Victorian Order at the time was the only Order awarded entirely at the discretion of the Monarch, and was generally awarded for services to the Monarch and the Royal Family. Indeed I believe the Royal Victorian Order is still the only Order awarded at the sole discretion of the Monarch, all the others require ministerial or Governmental input to one degree or another, from 'suggestions' in the case of say the Garter, to outright deciding who is admitted with essentially no input from the monarch in the case of the Order of the British Empire.... Its literally why it was created by Queen Victoria in the first place, to give her an Order, albeit a Junior one, that she and the monarchs who followed her had direct control of. As a result it tends only to be awarded for services to the Monarch or the Royal Family directly. The kind of people you would typically see awarded the order were those either acting in the Monarchs name who did, in the Monarch opinion, a fine job, such as Viceroys for example, or members of the Royal Household (the Household it the entire organisation around the Royal Family, so includes servants, advisors etc etc), or occasionally foreign dignitaries the Monarch thought worthy of recognition but for whom no existing award was suitable. Its not typically one you would see awarded to a soldier as there were already a series of awards in place that would recognise excellence in service to the Crown for serving soldiers. The Distinguished Service Order for example, as this could be awarded for both combat and non combat related services.

'"All The Kings Men " from 1999 could be an interesting film to look at in this series. David Jason's character wears medals I have never seen anywhere else, mostly jubilee/ coronation medals I guess given his character but would be nice to see how correct they and others are.

Again, where is the British War Medal and the Victory Medal (AKA the Inter-Allied Victory Medal). He's wearing thye 1914 Star.

Another great video. I enjoyed it immensely! Instead of the ashanti medal it might have been the east and west Africa medal 1892. That would place it before the india medal1896. 😊

9:43, would these plans involve getting out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy?