Empire Gallantry Medal
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empire-gallantry-medal-284-5762544
title:
Empire Gallantry Medal
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The Medal of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Gallantry, known as the Empire Gallantry Medal (EGM), was a British medal awarded for acts of gallantry. Unlike the then existing Sea Gallantry Medal (SGM) (1854), the Albert Medal (AM) (1866) and the Edward Medal (EM) (1907) which each had two classes with restricted eligibility criteria, the EGM was a single class award with wide eligibility. It was instituted by King George V on 29 December 1922. In July 1937, recipients were gra
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British medal (1922-1940)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Gallantry_Medal
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2023-10-02T12:27:19Z
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