What Are Michael Caine's Military Medals?

You did a Caine and it wasn't major Robert Henry Cain VC TD

Since when has Dick Van Dyke been a cockney, he's a bloody American and his portrayal of Bert in Mary Poppins was shocking.
MASH units are again American, the British call them Field Hospitals.

It seems odd that there is no offical British national service medal here in Australia there is an official national service medal that was instituted 20 or 25 years ago or there abouts I recall my uncle being informed of his eligibility to recive it

That's the oddest Victoria Cross and Zulu War Medal I've ever seen.

You should do an episode on RSM Lauderdale

Well done as always and thanks for taking the time and effort to make the video. I must say that I was very ignorant of Michael Caines background in that he served in Korea. Thanks for enlightening me. Oh, and a BIG thumbs👍 up.

It gives me a rye smile thinking of the likes of Michael Caine starting out in films as extras , playing against movie stars with millitary costumes on knowing they were the real deal and the star was just a phony. 🤣

Can you do Queen Elizabeth's Medals please.

Sir Michael has also been appointed CBE in 1992 and later a Knight Bachelor in 2000. In 2011 the French government made him a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

As an Aussie I was privileged to meet two members of Sir Michaels regiment last year. To this day they still catch up with him regularly.

Love for you to take a look at Uncle Albert's medals from Only Fools and Horses because some people saying his awards don't tally

Edit: If the Korea Medal was first issued in 1951, does that mean some former servicemen have a medal with George VI?

The two medals for the Korean War is one of two exemptions to the long-standing British policy of no ‘double medalling’ of campaign medals.

The ‘rule’ seeks to ensure that an individual should not be awarded more than one campaign medal in recognition for the same period of service. In the UK, permission to accept and wear a medal from another country or international organisation comes from the Sovereign, so such permission is not granted in cases where there is a British medal for the same campaign. For example, as the UK issues an Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan they were not granted permission to accept or wear the NATO medals issued for the theatre (though most (myself included) did actually accept the NATO medals as keepsakes).

The UK’s 2012 Military Medals Review by Sir John Holmes states that the Korean exemption was ‘understood to have been largely due to the UK and the UN failing to consult on their intentions to strike a medal but may also have been a mark of courtesy by the Government to the still relatively new United Nations organisation.’

The second exemption came in 2005 when the Malaysian Government asked for permission to award the Pingat Jassa Malaysia medal to British military and civilian personnel who had served in the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s and 60s. British personnel had been awarded a General Service Medal for that campaign but, for diplomatic reasons, they were given permission to accept (but not wear) the PJM. A subsequent campaign be veterans so them be granted permission to wear the medal from November 2011.

My name is Michael Caine …

In his autobiography he says he did his basic training in Guildford, Surrey. This would of been in the same Army Camp they later filmed parts of Carry on Sergeant.

"The Man who would be King", saw it three times.

Let's get a video on Maverick's medals from Top Gun

Another great video, very timely I am reading Michael Caines latest book and revisiting his movies! A video featuring the Man Who Would be King would be excellent.

Not many individuals are aware of these facts….. .

Andy Salmon’s book is indeed great - I was lucky enough to meet him when I toured the Imjin River battlefield a while back. Poignantly, it is still covered in trenches, maintained by the RoK army as fallback positions behind the DMZ.

I was ten years old in 1953 and well aware of the war in Korea. As a school we joined thousands of other people in the town broadway to welcome the Middlesex Regiment home. To infer that the Korean War was practically an unknown is far from accurate.

He did not need that last chad medal.

3rd medal is chocolate.

Michael Caine appeared in 10 war films. The best one was "Play Dirty" and in that trailer from 1969 we forgot about the medals.

Now part of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers! The best regiment in thecBritush Army!

I served in Malaya, Singapore and Sarawak Borneo, plus Northern Ireland the only recognition we have is a general service medal with three bars. We don't even get a mention at the festival of remembrance.

The "unofficial" National Service Medal should be made official IMO. They far king deserve it. He should also be awarded a medal for the patrol he was sent out on at night where things because a bit dicey for him and the guys he was with. Not many people know that.
What we have here son is a failure to service your weapon. Just watched that movie of his recently. Made me laugh because I bet he had heard that when he did his National Service or his bit in Korea.
I worked with a guy who was fined 15/- because he got his bayonet jammed into an enemy's rib case and couldn't pull the bloody thing out so had to abandon it. He was still rightly pissed about that 24 years after the event.

My Old Man was in Korea at roughly the same time, taking part in the Battle of the Hook as well. He was a Royal Engineer, a "Regular" who had opted for three years rather than two years so he could pick his arm of service.
He was BTW nearly "Crimped" by the Sherwood Foresters, as they tried to get him to sign a blank Attestation Form when called up and reporting to the Derby Road TAVR center, Nottingham in 1952.
On a side note, my Old Man always referred to his UN Medal as the "Butcher's Apron". He is gone now, but as I write this in NW Indiana, I have his medals to hand.
After discharge, spending the balance of his service in Hong Kong, my Old Man went to work for Rolls Royce. Over forty years, rising to the post of Chief Stress Engineer and finally Project Director for the then new Trent Engine.

You make fast, I make fast,
Make fast the dingy, make fast the dingy pontoon,
......
Oolum-da,
away we go.

I'm sorry, I am not too familiar with the regiments you mentioned, but where is the Australian regiment? and why was the Canadian regiment not mentioned?

Correcting previous. Had only got as far as your map, listing the regiments, subsequent footage helped explain. Sorry.

l was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy for 30 years, served in the lraq and Afghanistan campaigns and a couple of police actions and was thrown a whole lot of medals over my career (that career l enjoyed immensely with a few hairy moments). l wear the gongs occasionally at commemorative occasions that l don't really like going to, but it is expected.
The medals don't really mean much to me, l was just doing what l was paid to do and was rewarded with a pension and a bit of other help after l paid off from the Navy. So that's good for us veterans, but we really need to look after our veterans better.
A row of gongs doesn't help treat PTSD or prevent suicide.
Both of my grandfathers, long dead, served in both World Wars (one in the Australian army and the other in the Royal Navy) and have far more bits of 'tin and ribbon' than l, but both of them came home from the second war pretty broken. lt is telling that neither of them even bothered to collect their WW2 medals, but we descendants did and l have them as the family historian.

Let's do better to look after our vets from recent wars in kind and financially and not focus on what medals they have.
There, the lesson endeth.

he was awarded the 'you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off' cross,- and not a lot of people know that!

New subscriber, looks like I have some catching up to do. Old American veteran.

Hello the war is not over just a truce was signed!!!!!!

Make a D.O.D. Commander Kevin Dunn from " Snake Eyes" (1998) video

Since you did Sir Michael Caine, perhaps you would review the US Army Corporal Character portrayed by Steve Martin in “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”. Caine costarred in this 1980s comedy.

Would love to see if you could do General Francis Xavier Hummel from the Rock

Odd that Dick van Dyke's picture is included among cockneys because, not only was he not a cockney, but he has taken a lot of flak for the quality of his attempt at a cockney accent in Mary Poppins. I would only add that the blame for the latter should probably lie with whoever was his speech coach for the role. It is possible that his speech coach did not know what he was doing. However, still odd. Actually there was a cockney in the movie, Julie Andrews.

no harm in his wife arranging 3 medals for a personal gift. Im sure Sir M Caine would be proud to wear the 2 correct medals and not sully the rack with that last piece of tin

When I joined the US Army in 1993. Saw lots of old guy wearing Veteran hats with WW2, Korea Vietnam or Korea, Vietnam. Real Rambo’s. I have the same Afghan rug on the right. Nice video!

2 of the officers captured at Imjim became 2 of the most famous officers in the British Army James Carne won a VC Hockley won a DSO for their parts both 1 Gloster and 1 Fusiliers fought in the battle Glosters taken the front of the attack

Im an old soldier and have a couple of ribbons. Thanks for making another interesting and entertaining video.

Great work Daniel 👍

The same medals my Dad got for Korea Service in the Royal Canadian Regiment...The Commonwealth one, similar to dollar coin is silver, the United Nations decoration, bronze.

His third...I don't even know what it was called, was some cheap, poorly stamped, nickel-clad, brass trinket that arrived in a very prestigious ceremony...It was delivered by the postman in the mailbox in 1991.


Wow...."Thanks", big salute to our vets.

Seems the Canadian government wanted its OWN medal for Korea, and not the "British" one, as if there was anything wrong with the beautiful one he already had.

Kinda reminds me of Canada's own VC...While the real VC is made from the metal from Russian cannons, Im guessing ours are made from an engine block of an old Toyota truck we captured in Bosnia or something.

Being British not American I suspect he pronounced Maurice so it sounded like 'Morris' rather than 'Maureece'