2009.5.1

Description

Media Type: Image
Item Type: Images, Electronic
Description: - WW I British War Medal, silver disk surmounted by a straight bar suspender through which is attached a watered silk ribbon with orange centre flanked by stripeds of white, black, and blue
- obverse of the medal depicts the bust of King George V while the reverse depicts a naked man on horse back with the dates "1914" and "1918"
- the edge of the medal is impressed with the details of the recipient as follows: "880694 PTE. V. A. SWAINSTON. 18-CAN. INF"

Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 008
Date of Publication: 2018
Collection: Chatham Kent Museum
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Location of Original: Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 008
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