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1939-45 War Medal of Maj Robert White Keown, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 46th Division, 1939-1940
campaign medal
Accession Number

NAM.2024-12-4-2-6

Description

1939-45 War Medal of Maj Robert White Keown, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 46th Division until his death at Dunkirk, June 1940. Cupronickel, obverse shows the crowned head of King George VI, facing left and signed with the initials of the designer 'PM' at the bottom of the neck, around the perimeter is the legend 'GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX ET INDIAE IMP:'. The reverse shows a lion standing wanton on the body of a double-headed dragon above are the years '1939' and '1945' in two lines. The initials 'ECRP' of the designer are near the rim. Suspended from a red, white a blue striped ribbon by a straight bar suspender. Medals court mounted on a bar with a Spink and Son Limited label to reverse.

Campaigns

World War Two (1939-1945)

Events

Dunkirk, Evacuation, 1940 (World War Two, North West Europe 1939-1940)

Associated collection