File:Medal, campaign (AM 1958.015-8).jpg

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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William McMillan; Royal Mint; MacKennal, Bertram
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Classification: 278
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English: British War Medal 1914-20, WW1 Medal awarded to 40595 Private Walter Samuel Marvin, Auckland Infantry Regiment, NZEF. circular silver medal; plain straight non-swivelling suspender; ribbon missing obverse- coinage head of King George V with the legend- GEORGIUS V BRITT- OMN- REX ET IND- IMP- reverse- naked figure of St. George on horseback facing right; the horse is trampling on an eagle shield and cross bones symbolic of death; above the horse’s head is the sun, symbolic of victory; around the edge are the dates, 1914 and 1918 named on edge- 40595 PTE. W.S. MARVIN. N.Z.E.F.
Date 1919; World War 1, 1914-18-wars; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; 1914-1920
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diameter: 36mm
length: 50mm
notes: including suspension

notes: medal: 36mm diameter
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
1958.015
Exhibition history Display: 1A 22
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, W1298
Notes British War Medal 1914-20 Medal Awarded to 40595 Private Walter Samuel Marvin, 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, NZEF. At the time of his enlistment in 1916 Walter Marvin was employed as a ropeworker by the Rope and Twine Company, Stanley Street Auckland. He left New Zealand with the 22nd Reinforcements on 16th February 1917. He died in France on 1st October 1918, as a result of gunshot wounds to the chest, and is buried at the Grevillers British Cemetery near Bapaume.
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