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My Grandfather, William 'Billy' Baxters service medals
Medals from R-L The 1914 Star or Mons Star was instituted in 1917 for service ashore in France and Flanders between 5 August and 22 November. The British War Medal 1914-1920, authorised in 1919, was awarded to eligible service personnel and civilians. Qualifications for the award varied slightly according to service. The basic requirement for army personnel and civilians was that they either enter…
Contributors
- shane spelman NUI Galway
Subject
- World War I
- Remembrance
- World War I
Type of item
- Medal
- Medal
Date
- 1914
- 1919
- 1919
- 1914
- 1919
- 1914
Contributors
- shane spelman NUI Galway
Subject
- World War I
- Remembrance
- World War I
Type of item
- Medal
- Medal
Date
- 1914
- 1919
- 1919
- 1914
- 1919
- 1914
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2014-09-02 11:23:09 UTC
- 2014-09-02
- 2014-09-02
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/f0b72f4925ae9af6d80be5ad57669211
Places
- Western Front
Provenance
- INTERNET
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 189598
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/17502/attachments/189598
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1914
- 1919
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:46:42.414Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z
Table of contents
- Medals from R-L The 1914 Star or Mons Star was instituted in 1917 for service ashore in France and Flanders between 5 August and 22 November. The British War Medal 1914-1920, authorised in 1919, was awarded to eligible service personnel and civilians. Qualifications for the award varied slightly according to service. The basic requirement for army personnel and civilians was that they either entered a theatre of war, or rendered approved service overseas between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918.The Victory Medal 1914-1919 was also authorised in 1919 and was awarded to all eligible personnel who served on the establishment of a unit in an operational theatre