Every Medal
Has a Story.

Preserve your collection, connect medals with documents, photographs, family history, and the people who earned them.

How It Works
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
— Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen
Antique military medals arranged on aged service documents
A portrait from a soldier's medal group

Preserve Their Memory

More than metal and ribbon

Every medal was earned by someone. Record the name, the service, the campaigns and the family history behind each award — and keep the story attached to the medal for the generations that follow.

“
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row.

— John McCrae

Watercolour of Flanders poppies among white crosses

Catalog

Organize medals, ribbons, badges and more — by the person who earned them.

How cataloging works

Record

Keep the service history, provenance and research notes with each medal.

What a record holds

Connect

Link related service members and find others who share one.

How connecting works

Research

Work from a free archive of 11 million service records and citations.

How research works

What a record looks like

One page per service member, with everything you know about them

Service number, rank, unit, campaigns. Dates and places. A biography in your own words. Every medal in the group, and which ones are still missing. Where the group came from and what you paid — visible only to you.

The record shown is an example — a WWI South African infantryman's group — so you can see the page before you make one.

See the full example record
A Valor Registry record for Corporal Jacobus van der Merwe, 1st South African Infantry: service details, biography, provenance, and four WWI medals