Service after 19th March 2003

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The Waterloo Medal was the first medal to be named to the recipient around the rim

with the medal being a circular silver or bronze medal (as appropriate to the class awarded) suspended from a ribbon 1 3/8" wide and coloured dark blue and edged with yellow

the Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (Army) is awarded to members of the British Army who have completed 15 years of reckonable service

George Medal EIIR OBE/MBE Service after 19th March 2003Instituted in 1940 for rewarding acts of outstanding gallantry deemed not suitable for the award of the George Cross. To date approximately 2000 medals have been awarded and 27 second award bars. Although the awards have been split fairly evenly across the Military and Civilians it is perhaps today more often awarded to Military Personnel, particularly Bomb Disposal, EOD work as well as intelligence work by special forces. The last award of a bar was