WW2 BRITISH ARMY LONG SERVICE & GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL AWARD SOUTH WALES BORDERERS

Description

Offered is an original British Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal.

32mm wide silver medal with scroll suspension and clasp inscribed on a speckled ground ‘REGULAR ARMY’; 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’ (for the sculptor Percy Metcalfe, CVO, RDI, 1895-1970); the reverse inscribed ‘FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT on original ribbon. The medal is named in impressed capitals to: 4070201 SJT. L. FRANCIS, S. WALES BORD.

The medal was instituted on 29 December 1939 to be awarded to non-commissioned officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces for a minimum of eighteen years’ service.