Summary

General Service Medal 1918-1962, George V, 1st Issue, Specimen, medal without mount for ribbon.
This medal was instituted in 1923 as an army general service medal excluding service in India, East, West and Central Africa. It was never issued without a bar to indicate the campaign it was awarded for.

Obverse Description

Bare head of King George V facing left; around, 'GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP:'; the artist's initials B.M. (Bertram MacKennal) are on the neck truncation.

Reverse Description

Britannia as Victory - helmeted and holding a trident in left hand, winged and extending a laurel wreath in right over a pair of wings set about a radiant globe above an inverted sword; the artist's initials E.CR.P. (E. Carter Preston) above the groundline to left of Britannia.

Edge Description

plain

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