NAM.1980-05-40-8

Order of Merit, United Arab Emirates awarded to Maj Meredith Budd, Union Defence Force, United Arab Emirates, 1976. First class. Gold, with relief design within a raised rim on both sides. Suspended from a corded silk ribbon with black borders, a central broach red stripe bordered on either side by a green stripe bordered by a white stripe and having at the centre of the red stripe a single narrow yellow stripe. Above the suspender is a gold horizontal bar bearing seven seven-pointed stars in relief upon it. Obverse: At the centre of seven interlinked rings, an eagle with wings displayed and inverted facing dexter and superimposed upon a laurel wreath. Upon the eagle’s breast, within a circlet, a dhow. The eagle is standing upon a tablet. Reverse: Above twin foliate sprays, inscription.