Offered is an original full sized, unnamed (as issued) Defence Medal with 15cm length of unmounted ribbon. This is one of over 300 we have available, so all examples are in good condition to very good condition, with minor condition differences. The item you receive may vary ever so slightly from the item pictured.

The Defence Medal is awarded for six months service in a prescribed non-operational area subject to enemy air attack or closely threatened, in Australia and overseas, or for 12 months service in non-prescribed non-operational areas.

Within Australia the area is the Northern Territory, north of 14 degrees 30 minutes south, and the Torres Strait Islands between 3 September 1939 and 2 September 1945.

Overseas service includes the Middle East, east of the Suez Canal (less the period of the Syrian Campaign) or Malaya prior to the Japanese invasion on 8 December 1941.