VINTAGE WW1 BRITISH ARMY MEDAL PAIR NAMED ORIGINALS

VINTAGE WW1 BRITISH ARMY MEDAL PAIR. INCLUDES BRITISH WAR MEDAL & VICTORY MEDAL. THEY ARE ALL CORRECTLY NAMED WITH SERVICE NUMBER, RANK, NAME AND UNIT (FOR EXAMPLE 46053 PTE. G. H. HUDSON. S. LAN. R.). THESE ARE THE SAME MEDALS AS AWARDED TO ALL COMMONWEALTH FORCES FOR SERVICE DURING WW1, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, INDIAN, CANADIAN ETC. I HAVE HUNDREDS OF SETS AVAILABLE, SO BY PURCHASING I WILL SEND YOU A VERY GOOD CONDITION SET. I CAN LOOK FOR PARTICULAR UNITS OR CORPS ON REQUEST, HOWEVER RANDOM PICKS BASED ON QUALITY WILL BE SENT IF NOT REQUESTED. I AM NOT OFFERING RARE UNITS, JUST THE RUN OF THE MILL BRITISH ARMY CORPS & INFANTRY UNITS.

ALL ORIGINAL AS ISSUED. PERFECT FOR REMOUNTING, DISPLAY OR REPLACING LOST OR STOLEN RELATIVES MEDALS.

Medal History

*The British war Medal was approved in 1919, for issue to officers and men of British and Imperial forces who had rendered service between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918. Officers and men of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and Dominion and Colonial naval forces (including reserves) were required to have completed 28 days mobilised service – the medal was automatically awarded in the event of death on active service before the completion of this period. The medal was later extended to cover the period 1919–20 and service in mine-clearing at sea as well as participation in operations in North and South Russia, the eastern Baltic, Siberia, the Black Sea, and the Caspian.

*The Victory Medal (also called the Inter-Allied Victory Medal) is a campaign medal - of which the basic design and ribbon was adopted by Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Siam, Union of South Africa and the USA in accordance with decisions as taken at the Inter-Allied Peace Conference at Versailles as illustrated (a 'Winged Victory) but in a particular form of this historic Greek monument as determined by each nation, with the exception of the nations in the Far East who issued the medal but with a different design. The dates of the war were in every case 1914 to 1918, except that of the British Empire, which gave the dates as illustrated (1914 to 1919 with 1921 being the year in which the war ended in point of Parliamentary law but in 1919 under common law relating to the status and functions of the monarchy).