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Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies
Queen Victoria version
TypeMilitary long service medal
Awarded forTwenty years service
Eighteen years service in India
Country United Kingdom
Presented bythe Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
EligibilityOther ranks and Officers who have served in the ranks of the Volunteer Forces throughout the British Empire
StatusDiscontinued in 1930
Established1896
Last awarded1930
Ribbon bar
Order of Wear
Next (higher)Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies
Next (lower)Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
RelatedVolunteer Long Service Medal

The Volunteer Long Service Medal was instituted in 1894 as an award for long service by other ranks and some officers of the United Kingdom's Volunteer Force. In 1896, the grant of the medal was extended to other ranks and officers who had served in the ranks of the Volunteer Forces throughout the British Empire. A separate new medal was instituted, the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies. Awarding of this medal was discontinued in stages when it was superseded in most territories by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal in 1899 and in the remainder by the Efficiency Medal in 1930.[1][2]

  1. ^ Mayo, John Horsley (1897). Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Vol. II, 1897 (No. 224. Volunteer Long Service, 1894.). London: A. Constable. p. 495.
  2. ^ Mayo, John Horsley (1897). Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Vol. II, 1897 (No. 225. Volunteer Long Service Medal for Indian and Colonial Forces, 1896.). London: A. Constable. p. 499.

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