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The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration was established by Queen Victoria's Royal Warrant on 18 May 1899. This decoration could be awarded to part-time commissioned officers in recognition of long and meritorious service in any of the organized military forces of the Dominion of Canada and the British Colonies, Dependencies and ...
Of the official British medals which were applicable to South Africans, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal takes precedence as shown. [10] [11] [12] Preceded by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (VD). Succeeded by the Efficiency Decoration (South Africa) (ED).
Army Emergency Reserve Decoration: ERD: Volunteer Officers' Decoration: VD: 1892–1930: Volunteer Long Service Medal — 1894–1930: HAC ribbon Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies: VD: 1894–1899: Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies — 1896–1930: Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration: VD ...
Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies VD Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration VD
The decoration was a Naval version of the Volunteer Officers' Decoration and its successor, the Territorial Decoration. [1] [2] The decoration could also be awarded to part-time commissioned officers in the Naval Volunteer Reserves of Colonial Auxiliary Forces throughout the British Empire. [3]
The Volunteer Officers' Decoration, post-nominal letters VD, was instituted in 1892 as an award for long and meritorious service by officers of the United Kingdom's Volunteer Force. Award of the decoration was discontinued in the United Kingdom when it was superseded by the Territorial Decoration in 1908, but it continued to be awarded in some ...
1939 Army List, Dominion and Colonial Regiments index 1945 Army List, Order of Precedence of the British Army, with most colonial units omitted. The British Colonial Auxiliary Forces were the various military forces (each composed of one or more units or corps) of Britain's colonial empire which were not considered part of the British Army proper.
The Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies was superseded in 1899 by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration. In the United Kingdom, the Volunteer Officers' Decoration was superseded by the Territorial Decoration in 1908, but it continued to be awarded in a few Crown Dependencies until 1930. [13] [14]