N° d'objet
201701.3.2
Description
A Burma Star belonging to Sapper Harold Albert Heath, 199 Party, A Company.
The medal 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).
It is on a bar with four other medals: 1939-45 Star, the Defence Medal, the British War Medal and the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, George VI.
Date
1941 - 1945
Période de création
World War Two
Dimensions
- Height: 80 mm
- Diameter: 40 mm
- Width: Whole set 160 mm