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- Date
- 1914 – 1919
- Material
- metal; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0055 a-f
- Description
- A collection of military campaign medals and ribbons from the First World War: NOTE: a has not been founda) A set of two round medals, each measuring 8.1cm high by 7.8 cm long. One medal is an allied service medal of silver with the profile of “Georgius V. Britt. Omn Rex et Ind. Imp” on one side, …
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- Title
- Medal And Ribbon
- Date
- 1914 – 1919
- Material
- metal; fibre
- Description
- A collection of military campaign medals and ribbons from the First World War: NOTE: a has not been founda) A set of two round medals, each measuring 8.1cm high by 7.8 cm long. One medal is an allied service medal of silver with the profile of “Georgius V. Britt. Omn Rex et Ind. Imp” on one side, and a horseman stamping on a shield and skull and the dates “1914 “1918” on other. This medal is hanging from a bar at the end of a blue, black, white and gold striped ribbon. There is a spare piece of this ribbon. The second medal is a general service bronze coloured medal with a winged victory holding a large feather on one side and “The Great War for Civilization 1914-19” inside a bound wreath on the other side. This medal is hanging from the point of a rainbow coloured ribbon. There is a spare piece of this ribbon. b) Another medal set, similar to (a), but with a conveyance paper and a square cardboard box to hold the medals. Both of these medals are engraved with “Major F.A. Brewster”.c) A set of four miniature medals, measuring 6.5 cm wide by 5.8 cm high, attached to ribbons that are sewn together on a metal bar pin. The centre two medals are the same as (a), the medal on the left is a bronze coloured star-shaped medal of two crossed swords and a wreath, surmounted by a crown and hanging from the point of a red, white and blue ribbon, and the medal on the far right is an oval bronze coloured medal with “GR V” in high relief at the centre and crown at the top, that hangs from the point of a green and gold striped ribbon. d) Four campaign ribbons sewn together on a long metal bar, measuring 13.8 cm long by 1.0 cm high, in the same colours and in same order as (c).(e) and (f) have not been founde) Four ribbons sewn together in the same colours and order as (d), but they are not on a bar (note: ribbons separating from each other).f) Two sets of three ribbons sewn together in the same fashion as (e), but without the green and gold ribbon of the far right.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0055 a-f
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