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Award - Volunteer Service Medal

Location Ceylon (1597-1972)
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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