Bronze Age Gold from Wales
British War Medal 1914-1918
British War Medal 1914-1918. Issued to David Jenkins, a ship's carpenter. 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. In original envelope of issue.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
82.147I/9
Acquisition
Donation, 27/10/1982
Measurements
Length
(mm): 50
Width
(mm): 37
Width
(mm): 32
Material
silver
silk
Location
National Waterfront Museum (display)
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