Award - Victory Medal
Features
| Location |
South Africa
 |
|---|---|
| King |
George V (1910-1936)
|
| Type | Award medals › Military awards |
| Year | 1919 |
| Composition | Gilding metal plated bronze |
| Weight | 29.25 g |
| Diameter | 36 mm |
| Thickness | 3.7 mm |
| Shape | Round with a loop (Height with loop 39.6) |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 563626 |
Commemorative issue
End of World War 1 1919
Obverse
Winged Victory standing facing forwards with her left arm extended and holding a palm branch in her right hand
Script: Latin
Lettering: (In lower right field) W.McM
Designer: William McMillan
Reverse
Lettering in English and Dutch within a laurel wreath
Script: Latin
Lettering:
THE
GREAT WAR
FOR CIVILISATION
DE GROTE OORLOG
VOOR DE
BESCHAVING
1914-1919
Translation:
THE
GREAT WAR
FOR CIVILISATION
THE GREAT WAR
FOR
CIVILISATION
1914-1919
Designer: William McMillan
Edge
Plain, with recipient's service number, rank, name and unit
Mint
Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975)Comments
The award of a common allied campaign medal was recommended by an inter-allied committee in March 1919. Each allied nation would design a 'Victory Medal' for award to their own nationals, all issues having certain common features, including a winged figure of Victory on the obverse and the same ribbon. Fourteen countries finally awarded the medal.
Recipients had to have entered a theatre of the war between 5 August 1914, the day following the British declaration of war against the German Empire, and the armistice of 11 November 1918, both dates inclusive. The medal was never awarded singly, but to all those who were awarded either the 1914 Star or the 1914–15 Star, or to all of those who were awarded the British War Medal.
The Union Defence Forces served in German South West Africa in 1914 and 1915, while the volunteer South African Overseas Expeditionary Force served in Egypt in 1916, France and Belgium from 1916 to 1918, German East Africa from 1916 to 1918 and Palestine in 1917 and 1918. South African Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve contingents served with the Royal Navy in the Aegean and other theatres of war.
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1919 | 75 000 | ||||||||||||||
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