Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Victory Medal 1914-1919

The medal is laquered bronze and bears on the obverse the classical figure of Athene Nike, the goddess of Victory. On the reverse is an inscription, THE GREAT / WAR FOR / CIVILISATION / 1914-1919. The silk ribbon is red in the centre, with green and violet on either side shaded to form the colours of two rainbows. The medal is suspended from a plain ring. Mounted on a bar.

Victory Medal 1914-1919 mounted on a bar. Issued to John Daniel Jones, Mechanician, born 1888 in Aberbeeg, Gwent.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

82.173I/3

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Jones, John Daniel
Association Type: Recipient
Date: 1910s
Association Type: Place name
Place: Aberbeeg

Acquisition

collected officially, 12/11/1982

Measurements

diameter (mm): 50
Length (mm): 32

Material

Bronze
Silk
Aluminium
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