Defence Medal of Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Rawdon Briggs, 1939-1945 (c)
Defence Medal 1939-45, medal
Accession Number

NAM.2025-05-14-1-14

Description

Defence Medal of Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Rawdon Briggs, 1939-1945 (c) Cupro-nickel medal with the un crowned left facing profile of George VI with GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP. around to the obverse, reverse has a Tudor Crown resting on an oak sapling, flanked by a lion and a lioness above stylised waves with 1939 to the top left 1945 to the top right and THE DEFENCE MEDAL over two lines in the exergue. Suspended from a green ribbon with a wide central orange stripe and a narrow black stripe to both sides.

Campaigns

World War Two (1939-1945)