Inventarnummer
201108.24.3
Titel
A Victory Medal named to '42113 PTE S. HUNTLEY R. SCOTS' later RE
Beschreibung
A Victory Medal named to '42113 PTE S. HUNTLEY R. SCOTS' later RE. A yellow bronze Victory Medal. On the obverse is the standing figure of Victory holding a palm branch in her right hand and stretching out her left hand. On the reverse is a laurel wreath containing a four-line inscription ‘THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION 1914-1919.’ Ordinarily the ribbon is a double rainbow, with indigo at the edges and red in the centre. But the medal has the ribbon of the British War Medal, a ribbon of orange watered centre with stripes of white and black at each side and borders of royal blue. The reverse of the Victory Medal is visible. The medal is in a cream wooden frame protected by glass on the right with a British War Medal and a photograph of the recipient in uniform with an RE cap badge to the left. The medal is pinned to a black felt insert. 42113 Sydney Huntley initially served with the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) and transferred to the Royal Engineers later becoming 241340 Sapper S. Huntley RE.
Datum
1914 - 1918
Entstehungszeitraum
World War One
Material
Format
- Height: Medal 45 mm
- Height: Medal 40 mm
- Height: Medal 96 mm
- Width: Medal 34 mm
- Height: Ribbon 59 mm
- Width: Ribbon 31 mm
- Height: Frame 296 mm
- Width: Frame 346 mm