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1939-45 War Medal Full Size British MIilitary Award WW2 Repro for Navy Army Raf
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About 1939-45 War Medal Full Size British MIilitary Award
The War Medal 1939-1945 is a campaign medal that was instituted by the United Kingdom on 16 August 1945 for award to subjects of the British Commonwealth who had served full-time in the Armed Forces or the Merchant Navy for at least 28 days between 3 September 1939 and 2 September 1945. Foreign subjects commissioned or enlisted into British Forces who did not receive a similar award to the War Medal 1939-1945 from their own Governments were also eligible to qualify for the award of this medal. The obverse shows the crowned coinage effigy of King George VI, facing left signed PM (Percy Metcalfe). Around the perimeter is the legend "GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX ET INDIAE IMP:" The reverse signed E.C.R.P. (Edward Carter Preston) shows a lion standing wanton on the body of a double-headed dragon. The dragon's heads are those of an eagle and a dragon to signify the principal occidental and oriental enemies during the Second World War. At the top, just to the right of centre are the years "1939" and "1945" in two lines. The medal is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the "Victory Medal" for the Second World War.
