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British War Medal 1914-1918
British War Medal 1914-1918. 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. Mounted on a bar.
British War Medal 1914-1918 on a bar. Issued to John Daniel Jones, Mechanician, born 1888 in Aberbeeg, Gwent.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
82.173I/2
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Jones, John Daniel
Association Type: recipient
Date: 1910s
Association Type: place name
Acquisition
Collected officially, 12/11/1982
Measurements
Length
(mm): 50
Width
(mm): 40
Material
silver
silk
aluminium
Location
In store
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