- Naval General Service Medal (1915)
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Naval General Service Medal (1915) 
Obverse (left) and reverse (right) of medal
and ribbon (bottom).Awarded by United Kingdom and Commonwealth Type Campaign medal Eligibility Naval and Marine forces Awarded for Campaign service. Campaign Minor campaigns 1915–62. Description Silver disk, 36mm diameter. Clasps 17 Statistics Established 6 August 1915 Related General Service Medal (1918),
General Service Medal (1962)The Naval General Service Medal (1915 NGSM) was instituted in 1915 to recognise service by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in minor campaigns that would otherwise not earn a specific campaign medal. The Army/Air Force equivalent was the General Service Medal (1918). Both these medals were replaced by the General Service Medal in 1962.
Contents
Clasps
- PERSIAN GULF 1909–14 – for operations against pirates, gun-runners and slavers.
- IRAQ 1919–20 – for river gunboat service during the Arab Rebellion.
- N.W. PERSIA 1920 – for service in the Naval Mission in the Caspian Sea.
- PALESTINE 1936–39 – for service during the 'troubles.'
- S.E. ASIA 1945-6 – for operations in Java, Sumatra and French Indochina.
- MINESWEEPING 1945–47 – for 6 months' minesweeping in specified areas.
- PALESTINE 1945–48 – for service during further 'troubles.'
- MALAYA – for service in the Malaya and Singapore in the period during the state of emergency
- YANGTZE 1949 – for the attack on HMS Amethyst and other vessels by Communist Chinese forces.
- BOMB AND MINE CLEARANCE 1945–46 – for operations in specified areas.
- BOMB AND MINE CLEARANCE 1945–53 – for operations in specified areas.
- BOMB AND MINE CLEARANCE MEDITERRANEAN – for operations in the Mediterranean (mostly Valletta harbour)
- CANAL ZONE – for service in the Suez Canal Zone between October 1951 and October 1954. (Authorised 2003)
- CYPRUS – for EOKA operations, 1955–59.
- NEAR EAST – for operations on the Suez Canal, 1956.
- ARABIAN PENINSULAR – 1957–60 – for service against dissidents and cross-border raids
- BRUNEI – for service in Brunei, North Borneo and Sarawak, December 1962.
Description
- The medal is silver, 36mm in diameter. The obverse bears the image of three successive Sovereigns, King George V, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.
- The reverse shows a mounted figure of Brittania in a chariot pulled by two sea-horses.
- The ribbon is crimson-coloured with three white stripes.
Obverse variations
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King George V (1915–1936)
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King George VI INDIAE IMP (1936–1949)
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Queen Elizabeth II DEI GRATIA (1953–1962)
References
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 
General Service Medal (1918) • 
Naval General Service Medal (1915) • 
India General Service Medal (1936)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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