Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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 ...
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration: VD: 1921–1927 Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal — Gunnery Naval Good Shooting Medal — 1903: 1903–14: Part Time Forces Long Service (resumed) [38] Militia Long Service Medal — 1904: 1904–1930: Imperial Yeomanry Long Service Medal — 1904: 1904–1908: Territorial Decoration ...
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 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 award of the decoration was discontinued in the United Kingdom in 1966, when the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, composed of civilian volunteers, was merged with the Royal ...
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal; Naval Good Shooting Medal; Militia Long Service Medal; Imperial Yeomanry Long Service Medal; Territorial Decoration TD;
The Volunteer Officers' Decoration continued to be awarded in some colonies and Crown Dependencies (such as to officers of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, with awards for this unit continuing even after its re-organisation on Territorial Force lines in 1921) until the Efficiency Decoration was ...
On 13 June 1896 the grant of the Volunteer Long Service Medal was extended by Queen Victoria to members of Volunteer Forces throughout the British Empire, defined as being India, the Dominion of Canada, the Crown Colonies and the British Protectorates. A separate new medal was instituted, the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies.