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Award - George III Worlingworth Volunteers Medal
| Location | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1798 |
| Type | Award medal |
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| Obverse description | A full-length figure of a uniformed volunteer soldier standing at attention, holding a shouldered musket, wearing a plumed helmet. A drum is placed at his feet to the left. In the background, a church tower with a Union flag flies to the right, and a country house or barracks appears to the left. Engravers' initials appear in the lower left and lower right of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Central motif of a heart encircled by nine open hands arranged radially, enclosed within a garter bearing the legends WORLINGWORTH above and VOLUNTEERS below. This device is surrounded by a circular legend reading FOR OUR KING AND OUR COUNTRY. The whole is enclosed within a wreath of national flowers including rose, thistle, and shamrock, surmounted by a crown with the date 1798 flanking it. The legend JOHN HENNIKER MAJOR COMMT. appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | FOR OUR KING AND OUR COUNTRY WORLINGWORTH VOLUNTEERS JOHN HENNIKER MAJOR COMMT. 1798 |
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