- Mercantile Marine War Medal
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Mercantile Marine War Medal 
Obervse (top left) and reverse (top right) of medal,
with ribbon (bottom)Awarded by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Type Campaign medal Eligibility Mercantile Marine. Awarded for Campaign service. Campaign First World War 1914-18. Description Bronze disk, 36mm diameter. Clasps none Statistics Established 1919 Total awarded 133,135 The Mercantile Marine War Medal was awarded by the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom to members of the Merchant Navy for one or more voyages through a war or danger zone during the course of World War I.[1]
Description
- A circular, bronze medal, 1.42 inches in diameter. The obverse has a bareheaded effigy of King George V, facing left, with the legend: GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP :
- The reverse shows a merchant ship ploughing her way through stormy seas, an enemy submarine sinking and a sailing vessel in the background. The base of the reverse has the inscription FOR * WAR * SERVICE / MERCANTILE MARINE / * 1914 - 1918 * in three lines. Around the edge of the rim is a laurel wreath.
- The ribbon is 1.25 inches wide and is coloured green, white (thin middle stripe), and red (represent starboard and port running lights with the masthead steaming light in the centre).
See also
- Transport Medal
References
- ^ Medal Yearbook 2007 p.175
19th Century 
Army Gold Cross (1810) • Army Gold Medal (1810) • Waterloo Medal (1815) • 
Ghuznee Medal (1839) • 
Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul Medal (1842) • Jellalabad Medals (1842) • Medal for the Defence of Kelat-I-Ghilzie (1842) • 
First China War Medal (1842) • Scinde Medal (1843) • Gwalior Star (1843) • 
Sutlej Medal (1846) • 
Naval General Service Medal (1847) • 
Military General Service Medal (1847) • 
Punjab Medal (1849) • 
Army of India Medal (1851) • 
India General Service Medal (1854) • 
South Africa Medal (1854) • 
Crimean War Medal (1854) • 
Baltic Medal (1856) • 
Indian Mutiny Medal (1858) • 
Second China War Medal (1861) • 
New Zealand Medal (1869) • 
Abyssinian War Medal (1869) • 
Canada General Service Medal (1866-70) • 
Ashantee Medal (1873-74) • 
South Africa Medal (1877-79) • 
Afghanistan Medal (1878-80) • Kabul to Kandahar Star (1880) • 
Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal (1880-97) • 
Egypt Medal (1882-89) • 
North West Canada Medal (1885) • _
British South Africa Company Medal (1890-97) East and West Africa Medal (1892) • 
India Medal (1896) • 
Ashanti Star (1896) • 
Queen's Sudan Medal (1899) • 
East and Central Africa Medal (1899) • 
Queen's South Africa Medal (1899) • Queen's Mediterranean Medal (1899)Pre World War 1 
China War Medal (1900) • 
Ashanti Medal (1901) • 
King's South Africa Medal (1902) • 
Africa General Service Medal (1902) • 
Transport Medal (1902) (for South Africa or China) • 
Tibet Medal (1905) • 
India General Service Medal (1909)World War 1 
1914 Star • 1914-15 Star • 
British War Medal • 
Victory Medal • 
Territorial Force War Medal • 
Mercantile Marine War MedalInter World War World War 2 _
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1939-1945 Star • _
Atlantic Star • 
Air Crew Europe Star • __ 
Africa Star • _
Pacific Star • 
Burma Star • 
Italy Star • 
France and Germany Star • _
Defence Medal • 
War Medal 1939–1945Post World War 
Korea Medal (1951) • 
General Service Medal (1962) • 
Rhodesia Medal (1980) • 
South Atlantic Medal (1982) • 
Gulf Medal (1992) 
Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (1994)21st Century 
OSM for Sierra Leone (2000) • 
OSM for Afghanistan (2002) • 
OSM for Democratic Republic of Congo (2003) • 
Iraq Medal (2004) _
Iraq Reconstruction Service Medal (2004) • 
Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (2011)
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