Catalog
Award - Volunteer Service Medal
| Location | Ceylon (1597-1972) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Obverse lettering | PRESENTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON TO THOSE WHO VOLUNTARILY GAVE THEIR SERVICES OVERSEAS IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 1919 |
| Reverse description | A winged Victory figure seated between two pilasters raises a laurel branch in her right hand and holds a shield in her left; a scroll-form tablet below bears the engraved recipient name G.W. FERNANDO. In the lower exergue, a skull and a cannonball flanking a crossed-cannon motif appear in low relief. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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