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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
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.