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Medals of the British navy and how they were won : with a list of those officers, who for their gallant conduct were granted honorary swords and plate by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund (1895)

Long, William H., 1840-1896 · London : Norie & Wilson · leaf 440

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additional bar may beadded. Neither rank, nor long service, nor wounds, nor anyother circumstance or condition whatsoever, save the merit ofconspicuous bravery, shall be held to establish a sufficientclaim to the honour. The decoration is a Maltese Cross ofbronze, attached by the letter V to a bar,… … JhE yiCTO^lA pROSS. NAVAL MEDALS. 389 date of the act of bravery, for which the Cross was given, isengraved. The name and ship of the recipient, are engravedon the back of the bar. Ribbon, blue for the Navy, red forthe Army. Every Warrant, or Petty Officer, Seaman, orMarine, who has received the…

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