User:Hsq7278

Hi, I'm Hsq7278.

I live in the UK, on the outskirts of London. I am a graduate in Political Studies from Leeds University.

I am a holder of the Vierdaagsekruis in gold:

My main Wikipedia involvement has been to update and amplify articles on orders and medals, particularly campaign medals, and related articles on military campaigns. I am a long standing member of the Orders and Medals Research Society.

I have also added a number of new biographies, as well as improving existing ones.

Incremental service awards
I have been a Wikipedia contributor for over fourteen years and have – so far – made over 4,700 edits. I am therefore entitled to the Yeoman Editor Service Badge and the Yeoman Editor Award:

British medals
King's/Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air Royal Niger Company’s Medal Queen Victoria Police Jubilee Medal King Edward VII Police Coronation Medal King George V Police Coronation Medal Visit to Ireland Medal 1900 Visit to Ireland Medal 1903 Visit to Ireland Medal 1911 Awards of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Colonial and Commonwealth medals
Title Badge (India) Deccan Medal Mysore Medal Egypt Medal (1801) Medal for Rodrigues, Isle of Bourbon & Isle of France Java Medal Nepal Medal Burma Medal Coorg Medal Mauritius Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal Mauritius Fire Service Long Service & Good Conduct Medal Mauritius Prison Service Long Service & Good Conduct Medal New Zealand Memorial Cross Medals of Sierra Leone (1961–1971) Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal Trans-Jordan Frontier Force Long Service Medal

German & Austrian awards
Condor Legion Tank Badge Army Mountain Guide Badge Driver Proficiency Badge Crete Cuff Title Africa Cuff Title Metz 1944 Cuff Title Courland Cuff Title Warsaw Shield Karl Troop Cross

Dutch medals
Silver Memorial Cross, 1813–15 Cross for the Four Day Marches Orderly Medal of the Four Day Marches Group Medal of the Four Day Marches

Biographies
Sir Richard Foster (British general) Keble Howard, Author Dorothea Macnee, ‎Mother of actor Patrick Macnee Thomas McTeague, ‎George Cross winner Margaret Winser, Sculptor

Egyptology
Evelyn Beauchamp, née Herbert, one of first people in modern times to enter Tutankhamen's tomb Arthur Callender, assisted Tutankhamun tomb excavation Alfred Lucas (chemist), assisted Tutankhamun tomb excavation Albert Lythgoe, American Egyptologist

Politics & law
Eric Fraser, Aircraft Production Ministry Director-General Sir Henry Percy Harris (Conservative politician) Louisa Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool, first wife of Prime Minister Lord Liverpool Mary Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool, second wife of Prime Minister Lord Liverpool His Honour Judge Sir James Miskin QC Charles Nicholas Pallmer, ‎British MP and plantation owner Henriette Pressburg, Mother of Karl Marx John Spratt Rainier, Rear-Admiral and MP for Sandwich Henry Butler Ratcliffe, MP for Bradford, 1918–22 Sir Alfred Warren, Mayor of Poplar and MP Sir Ernest Wild (Conservative politician)

Other subjects
Bow Street Police Museum Chilly Christmas (US film) Chiswick Lifeboat Station De Oversteek, bridge at Nijmegen Gravesend Lifeboat Station Risk appetite Wandsworth School