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Medal

Date1916

MediumSilver

ClassificationsArtworks/Commemorations/Photographs

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Object numberLDCUM2009.009.001

DescriptionCircular silver badge with pin. It has an openwork central design of a crown and the initials GRJ' - the cypher of George V. The border has the inscription: 'For King and Empire-Services Rendered.'

This army medal was awarded to William Thomas Graham for his time in the Rifle Brigade during the Great War 1914 - 1918. The Silver War Badge, sometimes erroneously called the Silver Wound Badge, was authorised in September 1916 and awarded to all those military personnel who were discharged as a result of sickness or wounds contracted or received during the war, either at home or overseas.

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