Inventarnummer
201605.1.3
Beschreibung
A Burma Star, with ribbon, in a small plastic bag. It was awarded to Major Leonard J. M. McSweeney. It is a bronze six-pointed star with a circular centre with the GRI/VI monogram, surmounted by a crown and inscribed ‘THE BURMA STAR’. With a ribbon consisting of three equal bands of dark blue (British forces), red (Commonwealth forces) and dark blue. The dark blue bands each have at their centres a stripe of bright orange (the sun).
There is an MID Oakleaf sewn to the ribbon.
Datum
1941 - 1945
Entstehungszeitraum
World War Two
Format
- Diameter: Medal 40 mm
- Height: Ribbon 70 mm
- Width: Ribbon 35 mm