1947 POST WW2 IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL GEORGE VI EDWARD MINNS ACTING SUPERINTENDANT LONDON POSTAL REGION

Offered is an original Imperial Service Medal.

33mm wide circular silver medal with scroll and laterally-pierced ball suspension; the face with the crowned head of King George VI facing left, circumscribed ‘GEORGIVS VI D: G: BR: OMN: REX ET INDIAE IMP:’ (George VI by the Grace of God King of Great Britain and Emperor of India), signed ‘PM’; the reverse with a labourer resting from his toils, seated on a stone bench, the radiant sun rising over a landscape beyond, inscribed ‘FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE’ below; attributed on the edge to EDWARD RICHARD MINNS; on original mounted ribbon. Comes with London Gazette entry for award, dated 21/11/1947 for services as Assistant Superintendent, London Postal Region.

The medal was instituted in August 1902 to recognise long and meritorious service by administrative and clerical Civil Service staff throughout the Empire and was awarded to staff who had completed at least 25 years’ service on retirement. This good example dates from the period after the change from the coinage profile of George V in 1931 and before the change to the head of George VI following the death of George V in 1936. Approximately sixteen thousand such medals were awarded in all.