Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies information
UK volunteer long service medal
Award
Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies
Queen Victoria version
Type
Military long service medal
Awarded for
Twenty years service Eighteen years service in India
Country
United Kingdom
Presented by
the Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
Eligibility
Other ranks and Officers who have served in the ranks of the Volunteer Forces throughout the British Empire
Status
Discontinued in 1930
Established
1896
Last awarded
1930
Ribbon bar
Order of Wear
Next (higher)
Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies
Next (lower)
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
Related
Volunteer 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 Awarding of this medal was discontinued in stages when it was superseded in most territories by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal in 1899 and in the remainder by the Efficiency Medal in 1930.[1][2]
^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.
^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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