Bronze Age Gold from Wales

British War Medal 1914-1918. Issued to Thomas L. Varian, marine engineer. The medal hangs from its silk ribbon (central vertical stripe of gold with stripes of white and black at each side and borders of royal blue) by a straight suspender bar without swivel. The obverse bears the coinage effigy of His Majesty the King with the legend GEORGIVS V:BRITT: OMN:REX ET IND:IMP:. The reverse depicts a male figure mounted on horseback, trampling underfoot the eagle shield of the Central Powers and the emblems of death, a skull and cross-bones. Above is the risen sun of victory. Attached stand for ribbon.