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The British War Medal is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom which was awarded to officers and men and women of British and Imperial forces for service in the First World War. Two versions of the medal were produced. About 6.5 million were struck in silver and 110,000 in bronze, the latter awarded to, among others, the Chinese, Maltese and ...
The Victory Medal (also called the Inter-Allied Victory Medal) is a United Kingdom and British Empire First World War campaign medal . The award of a common allied campaign medal was recommended by an inter-allied committee in March 1919. [2] Each allied nation would design a 'Victory Medal' for award to their own nationals, all issues having ...
C. Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal. Commemorative Cross of the 1916–1918 War. Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915–1918. Commemorative Medal of the Great Serbian Retreat. Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France) Volunteer Combatant's Cross 1914–1918. The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918.
Harry Patch. Henry John Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy ", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War from any country. [1] Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but ...
The 1914–15 Star is a campaign medal of the British Empire which was awarded to all who served in the British and Imperial forces in any theatre of the First World War against the Central European Powers during 1914 and 1915. The medal was never awarded singly and recipients also received the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
World War I. During World War I (1914–1918) the following campaign medals were issued: [1] 1914 Star. 1914–15 Star. British War Medal. Mercantile Marine War Medal. Victory Medal. Territorial Force War Medal. The most frequent combinations are "trios" of either the 1914 or 1914–15 Star, the British War Medal and Victory Medal; and "pairs ...
The British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. [1] Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army was made up exclusively of volunteers—as opposed to conscripts —at the beginning of the conflict. [2] Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and ...
In all some 125 men received the Medal for their actions in World War I (34 of them posthumously): 92 from the Army, to include 4 from the Air Service, 21 from the Navy (including 10 who received the Medal of non-combat actions), and 8 from the Marine Corps. Among the recipients were Alvin York, who later became the basis for the movie Sergeant ...