Meritorious Service Medal (South Africa)
id:
meritorious-service-medal-south-africa-282-16208812
title:
Meritorious Service Medal (South Africa)
text:
In May 1895, Queen Victoria authorised Colonial governments to adopt various British military medals and to award them to their local permanent military forces. The Cape of Good Hope and Colony of Natal instituted their own territorial versions of the Meritorious Service Medal in terms of this authority. These two medals remained in use in the respective territories until after the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. In 1914, the Meritorious Service Medal was instituted for the U
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Award
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritorious_Service_Medal_(South_Africa)
date created:
date modified:
2020-12-31T04:06:38Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q20716489","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20716489"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Meritorious_Service_Medal_%28South_Africa%29_George_V.jpg","width":770,"height":649}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15