Description

WW1 AUSTRALIAN BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MOUNTED MEDAL TRIO GROUP REPLICA ANZAC AIF

Offered is a Full sized Replica set of medals, for First World War service.

Medals include the following awards: 1914/15 Star; War Medal & Victory Medal. Court mounted for wear or display. Comes with a 5 year guarantee of workmanship.

These are quality die cast alloy replicas. These can be worn on special military anniversaries, including Anzac and Remembrance Day. This trio is the standard three medals awarded for those soldiers, sailor’s and airmen who served during the First World War who entered combat from 5th August to 22nd November 1914.

Medal History

*The 1914–15 Star was authorised in 1918 and was awarded for service in specified theatres of war between 5 August 1914 and 31 December 1915. This medal was awarded to those soliders who served at Gallipoli.

*The British war Medal was approved in 1919, for issue to officers and men of British and Imperial forces who had rendered service between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918. Officers and men of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and Dominion and Colonial naval forces (including reserves) were required to have completed 28 days mobilised service – the medal was automatically awarded in the event of death on active service before the completion of this period. The medal was later extended to cover the period 1919–20 and service in mine-clearing at sea as well as participation in operations in North and South Russia, the eastern Baltic, Siberia, the Black Sea, and the Caspian.

*The Victory Medal (also called the Inter-Allied Victory Medal) is a campaign medal – of which the basic design and ribbon was adopted by Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Siam, Union of South Africa and the USA in accordance with decisions as taken at the Inter-Allied Peace Conference at Versailles as illustrated (a ‘Winged Victory) but in a particular form of this historic Greek monument as determined by each nation, with the exception of the nations in the Far East who issued the medal but with a different design. The dates of the war were in every case 1914 to 1918, except that of the British Empire, which gave the dates as illustrated (1914 to 1919 with 1921 being the year in which the war ended in point of Parliamentary law but in 1919 under common law relating to the status and functions of the monarchy).