Object number
7406.2.8
Title
Africa Star
Description
Africa Star awarded to Spr E.N. Goddard, with bar for 1st Army. A bronze six-pointed star with a circular centre with the GRI/VI monogram, surmounted by a crown and inscribed ‘THE AFRICA STAR’. With a ribbon of pale buff symbolizing the sand of the desert, with a broad red central stripe, a dark blue stripe on the left and a light blue stripe on the right symbolizing the three services.
Date
1939 - 1945
Production period
Windsor, 1910-, World War Two, 1939-1945
Dimensions
- Height: 95 mm
- Width: 40 mm