Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal information
Award
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
Queen Victoria version
Type
Military long service medal
Awarded for
Twenty years service
Country
United Kingdom
Presented by
the Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
Eligibility
All ranks of part-time Colonial Forces
Status
Discontinued in 1930
Established
1899
Last awarded
1931
Ribbon bar
Order of Wear
Next (higher)
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
Next (lower)
Medal for Good Shooting (Naval)
Related
Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies
The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1899 as a military long service award for part-time members of all ranks in any of the organized military forces of the British Colonies, Dependencies and Protectorates throughout the British Empire. The medal gradually superseded the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies in all these territories, with the exception of the Isle of Man, Bermuda and the Indian Empire.[1][2][3]
In 1930, the medal, along with the Volunteer Long Service Medal, the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies, the Militia Long Service Medal, the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and the Territorial Efficiency Medal, were superseded by the Efficiency Medal in an effort to standardise recognition across the Empire.[4]
^"No. 27085". The London Gazette. 2 June 1899. p. 3517.
^South African Medal Website – Colonial Military Forces (Accessed 6 May 2015)
^"Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (Colonies), King George V issue, 1911–1930, miniature". Medal-Medaille. 6 February 2006. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
^"No. 33653". The London Gazette. 17 October 1930. p. 6311.
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