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Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:100.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 CAD
Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal
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This item SOLD at 2019 Nov 23 @ 18:46UTC-4 : AST/EDT

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The medal was cast in bronze, having dimensions of 45 x 52. The obverse depicts the personification of Ceylon - a seated, right-facing robed and laureate female figure placing, with her right hand, a laurel wreath crown on the bowed head of a left-facing soldier kneeling on his left knee. The soldier rests his cap on the ground with his right hand, while the background depicts a multi-rayed sun setting into the sea behind them. The Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal (sometimes referred to as the Government of Ceylon War Medal) is a non-wearable campaign medal awarded by the Government of Ceylon to all members of the Ceylonese armed forces that volunteered for overseas service during World War I. The exact number of medals struck is disputed, with sources citing numbers between 450 and 3000. The medal was the only one of its kind, Ceylon being the only British crown colony to issue a medal of its own for its citizens' service in the war. Those awarded the medal were servicemen of either the Ceylon Defense Force (including the all-European Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps) or the Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Engraved: G. Harbord; EF condition. Ref: The Revolvy website.