Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence ROYAL NAVY WW2 & "MINESWEEPING" 1945-51 Group of - Medals of England This information will help us make improvements to the website. Wear a (3/16 inch) bronze star for second and subsequent awards. Admiral Thomas Bladen Capel was one of the members of the board that authorised the medal.. Army and Royal Flying Corps H.M.S. The Naval General Service Medal can refer to one of two medals, each issued by the British government as campaign medals for naval service: In 1962, the British government authorised a new medal, the General Service Medal (1962), which replaced both the Naval General Service Medal and the Army and RAF equivalent the General Service Medal (1918). [2] The clasps covered a variety of actions, from boat service, ship to ship skirmishes, to major fleet actions such as the Battle of Trafalgar. Each ship is listed separately. Page 5-67. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Mission Support Team (MST); formerly included in Op BACKWELL (24-Apr-12 to present). These criteria are usually that an individual has served in a specific area, usually for a specified minimum time between set dates. The 1953 Coronation and 1977 Jubilee rolls are available in The National Archives Library. Based on the Naval Roll held at The Public Record Office, reference ADM.171. There are medal index cards for over 5.5 million men who served abroad in the First World War. Medals: campaigns, descriptions and eligibility - GOV.UK The medal was instituted in 1915 to recognise service by personnel serving with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in minor naval operations that would not normally attract a specific medal. Appendix 2 Abbreviations found in ADM 171, British Army operations in the First World War, Friends of The National For Direct support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in the designated area of eligibility (AOE). Includes sailors serving ashore. The National Archives Campaign medal rolls for the Second World War are not kept at The National Archives. They contain more detail than the medal roll. Awarded by the secretary of defense for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility. The medal covered a variety of actions, from ship to ship skirmishes all the way to major . NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 2 CLASP MILITARY MINIATURE MEDAL - DANBURY MINT - REF56 6.99 1 bid Free postage 1d 19h Click & Collect WW1 1914-15 Star ROBBIE officer RNR Royal Naval Reserves Abroath & Southampton 8.50 3 bids 2.50 postage 5d 18h WW2 Naval Medal Grouping including scarce France & Germany Bar 75.00 0 bids 2.95 postage Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. All Rights Reserved. Medal of Honor. [1], It is expected that further operations and clasps will be added to the GSM as time progresses. We can either copy our records onto paper or deliver them to you digitally, Visit us in Kew to see original documents or view online records for free, Consider paying for A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decoration Awarded to the Army and Navy: chiefly described from those in the collection of A A Payne, IRCP, MRCS of which there are some 2,500 (Polstead, 1981), W H Fevyer and J W Wilson, The 1914 Star to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines (London, 1995), Lawrence L Gordon, British Battles and Medals: A description of every campaign medal and bar awarded since the Armada, with the historical reasons for their award and the names of all the ships, regiments and squadrons of the Royal Air Force whose personnel are entitled to them (1979), E C Joslin, A R Litherland and B T Simpkin, British Battles and Medals (London, 1988), William Spencer, Medals: The Researchers Guide (Kew, 2006). The Army/Air Force equivalent was the General Service Medal (1918). The Maryland Military Department Emergency Service Medal (formerly known as the Maryland National Guard State Active Duty Medal) is bestowed to recognize uniformed members of the Maryland Military Department who are deployed to assist in domestic crisis under Title 32 of the United States Code, but not under Title 10, as recognized by the adjutant general of Maryland. The reverse has the symbol of Britannia holding a trident astride a seahorse with a fish tail. Bronze "V" device worn todenote valor. The Rt. If you don't have an account please register. You may press enter to select an option. The medal rolls are variously arranged and accessed for each service. Awarded for wounds or death as result of an act of any opposing armed force, as a result of an international terrorist attack or as a result of military operations while serving as part of a peacekeeping force. For participating in an expedition, operation or support ofa U.S. operation in Antarctica after Jan. 1, 1946, to date to be announced. Naval General Service Medal (1847) - Wikipedia Apply for a medal or veterans badge : Apply for a medal - GOV.UK Bronze "V" device worn to denote valor. May, Royal Navy, HMS Rattlesnake, Boxed Medallion, Daily Mail Bleriot Anniversary Cross Channel Air Race, 13th - 23rd July 1959, bronze, awarded to Lieutenant Commander W. J. Carter, Royal Navy, British Empire group of 7 to 4063697 Acting Corporal Robert Macfarlane Macleod.