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EFFICIENCY MEDAL REGULATIONS
Regulations 31st January 1936, 8th December 1943, 17th December 1947
Made by the Governor under the authority of the Royal Warrant of 23rd September 1930.
1. The Efficiency Medal and Clasps are awarded as a reward for long and efficient
service to warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Authorised
Auxiliary Forces of the Empire (and their Reserves); their award is governed by the
Royal Warrant dated 23rd September, 1930.
2. Officers who are serving or who have served as such on the Active List of any of His
Majesty's forces during the present emergency and who were, on 2nd September, 1939,
serving as officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, men or auxiliaries on
the Active List of any of the Authorised Auxiliary Forces of the Empire, and were
embodied under any Proclamation by the Governor shall be eligible subject in other
respects to the conditions laid down in the Royal Warrant of 23rd September, 1930 (as
subsequently amended) for the award of the Efficiency Medal and Clasps and be allowed
to reckon their service as officers as qualifying service for the Medal and Clasps, except
that officers who, before the 23rd September, 1930, had qualified for the award of the
Efficiency Decoration shall not be eligible for the Medal and Clasps unless they are
qualified under the terms of the Royal Warrant of 23rd September, 1930.
3. Officers as aforesaid who were serving as warrant officers, non- commissioned
officers, or men on the Reserve of any of the Authorised Auxiliary Forces of the Empire
(provided such Reserve Service entailed for Reservists a liability to join the Auxiliary
Force for active service upon its mobilization) on 2nd September, 1939, and who were
embodied under any Proclamation by the Governor shall be eligible subject in other
respects to the conditions laid down in the Royal Warrant of 23rd September, 1930, for
the Efficiency Medal and Clasps and be allowed to reckon their service as officers as
qualifying service therefor.
4. Any person who under the terms of regulations 2 and 3 receives an Efficiency Medal
and Clasps and is or subsequently becomes entitled to an Efficiency Decoration shall not
be permitted to wear such medal or clasps with the Efficiency Decoration, except under
the conditions laid down in the Royal Warrant of 23rd September, 1930.
5. Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Fiji Defence Force, who
on or after 23rd September, 1930, have completed 12 years' qualifying service as
hereinafter defined shall be eligible for the award of the Medal. A Clasp to be worn on
the ribbon of the Medal will be awarded to a recipient of the Medal on completing 18
years' qualifying service, and a further Clasp on completing 24 years, qualifying service.
6. The subsidiary title of the Medal awarded to warrant officers, non-commissioned
officers, and men who complete the requisite period of qualifying service while serving
in the aforesaid Fiji Defence Force shall be "Fiji" and the word "Fiji" shall be inscribed
on the Bar mount of the Medal so awarded.
7. Service as described below shall be regarded as qualifying service, provided that none
of it has been previously counted as qualifying service for the grant of any other Long
Service, Good Conduct or Efficiency Medal or Clasp-
A. Service in the ranks on the active list of the aforesaid Fiji Defence Force, such
service having been efficient in accordance with the regulations governing service
in such Forces.
B. Service in the ranks of other Authorised Auxiliary Naval, Military, or Air
Forces of the Empire in which training in peace time is a prescribed condition of
service as well as service in any Reserves to these Forces, subject to the annual
training being equivalent to that normally carried out by their parent Forces,
provided the individual concerned also performed such training and that
efficiency is determined by the standard required for the latter Forces, such
service in both cases having been qualifying service in accordance with the
regulations under the Royal Warrant of 23rd September, 1930, applicable to the
Force in which or with whose Reserves the service was rendered.
C. Service in the ranks of a Cadet Corps or as a cadet in an Officer's Training
Corps in Great Britain or in any of His Majesty's Dominions, Colonies, or
territories under His Majesty's protection, such service being qualifying service in
accordance with the regulations under the Royal Warrant of 23rd September,
1930, applicable to the Auxiliary Forces of the domain or territory in which the
service was rendered.
D. Service in any Forces mentioned in sub-paragraphs A and B during their
embodiment, other than service covered by those sub-paragraphs, the exact period
of such embodiment only being counted, provided always both as regards this
service, and that referred to in the said sub-paragraphs A and B, that a period of
two months embodied service in any calendar year will be allowed to count as the
equivalent of efficient service for that year.
E. Service on the Permanent Staff of the aforesaid Fiji Defence Force by members
of the Permanent Forces of the Empire, except such service as may be covered by
sub-paragraph F below, and service in the Defence Force Reserve shall not reckon
as qualifying service for the Medal or Clasps.
F. War Service-
(i) A warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, or man of the aforesaid
Fiji Defence Force who was serving in the ranks of such Forces or in the
ranks of any other Authorised Auxiliary Force of the Empire including
their Reserves (provided such reserve service entailed for reservists a
liability to join the Auxiliary Force for active service upon its
mobilization) on 4th August, 1914, and who before 11th November, 1918,
served, or accepted an obligation to serve, on military service beyond the
borders of the territory of the Force of which he was a member, will
reckon two-fold as qualifying service all embodied service on the Active
List, whether commissioned or in the ranks, given between the dates of
embodiment and of disembodiment of the Force in which he was serving,
whether such service was in the Royal Navy, Regular Army, Royal Air
Force, Special Reserve, Territorial Force, or Dominion or Colonial Forces.
(ii) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (i), commissioned service in the
case of those men who were commissioned after service in the ranks of an
Authorized Auxiliary Force of the Empire during the period of
embodiment of the Force consequent upon the outbreak of war on 4th
August, 1914, and who, having relinquished their Commissions, reenrolled
in the ranks of an Authorised Auxiliary Force prior to 1st
January, 1922, shall count as single qualifying service for the Medal or
Clasps.
(iii) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (i), service in the ranks in the
Royal Navy, the Regular Army, Royal Air Force, or a Permanent Force of
a Dominion, Colony, or territory under His Majesty's protection during the
period 4th August, 1914, to 31st December, 1921, shall count as single
qualifying service for the Medal or Clasps.
(iv) Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned officers and men of the
aforesaid Forces who were serving in the ranks of the said Forces or in any
other authorised Auxiliary Force of the Empire including their Reserves
(provided such Reserve Service entailed for Reservists a liability to join
the Auxiliary Force for active service upon its mobilization) on 2nd
September, 1939, and who were embodied under any Proclamation by the
Governor, shall be allowed to count embodied service during the present
war two-fold as qualifying service towards the award of the Efficiency
Medal and of the two clasps thereto.
(v) If, during the present war, a Warrant Officer, Non- commissioned
officer or man serving in the aforesaid Forces is released from military
service, other than at his own request, for the purpose of work of national
importance, and if he is recalled for military service before disembodiment
of the Forces, his period on the Non-Effective list will rank as single
qualifying service towards the award of the Efficiency Medal.
(vi) In the case of these warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and
men, service in the ranks with any of His Majesty's forces during the
present war, which is of not less than two months in each calendar year,
will be allowed to count as the equivalent of two annual 'trainings', but not
more than two 'trainings' (including equivalent service) shall be reckoned
in any one calendar year for the purpose of this Regulation.
(vii) Continuity of qualifying service will be admitted in the case of any of
these warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men, who, having
been discharged from His Majesty's forces during the present war by
reason of wounds or illness contracted on service subsequently during the
period of embodiment, voluntarily re-enlisted into such forces after
recovery.
(viii) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (iv) to (vii), the term "the present
war" means any war in which His Majesty may be engaged between the
second day of September 1939 and such date as may thereafter be declared
by Order in Council to be the date of cessation of hostilities.
H. No service shall count more than two-fold towards the award of the Medal and
Clasps.
I. Continuity of Service-
(a) Service must have been rendered continuously except-
(i) during the period 4th August, 1914, to 31st December, 1921, or
(ii) when given in different Authorised Auxiliary, Naval, Military,
or Air Forces in the same portion of the Empire, provided that the
break does not exceed twelve months, or
(iii) when leave of absence has been granted by the Commandant
to a member of the Fiji Defence Force to proceed on leave beyond
Fiji provided that the member concerned resumes duty in the Fiji
Defence Force forthwith upon his return to Fiji.
(b) The following periods, although inadmissible as qualifying service
(save in the circumstances hereinbefore described) will not be reckoned as
breaking continuity of service:-
(i) Service in the Royal Navy, Regular Army, Royal Air Force, or
in a Permanent Force of a Dominion, Colony, or territory under
His Majesty's protection, or in the Reserves of such Forces or in
the Reserves of any Authorised Auxiliary Force of the Empire.
(ii) Intervals between service in the Royal Navy, Regular Army,
Royal Air Force, or in a Permanent Force of a Dominion, Colony,
or territory under His Majesty's protection, or in an Authorised
Auxiliary Force of the Empire, during the period 4th August, 1914,
to 31st December, 1921.
(iii) Service of men of the aforesaid Fiji Defence Force whilst
released from military service for the purpose of being employed
on work of national importance, which will be de- fined as
occasion arises, during a period of embodiment.
(iv) Periods of desertion or absence without leave of men of the
aforesaid Fiji Defence Force during embodiment or training either
in camps or barracks, provided that they continue to serve after
their offence has been dealt with.
(v) Periods of detention or imprisonment during annual training or
embodiment.
8. The Efficiency Medal will be worn suspended on the left breast by a green ribbon, one
inch and a quarter in width, with yellow stripes down the edges, but the recipient of any
other Long Service, Good Conduct or Efficiency Medal will only be permitted to wear
the Efficiency Medal (with or without Clasps) with them if he has completed the full
period of qualifying service in respect of each Medal or Clasp.
9. Wearing of Roses-In undress and service uniform when ribbons only are worn, the
grant of Clasps will be denoted by the wearing on the ribbon of small silver roses, one or
more according to the number of Clasps awarded. The rose (or roses) will not be worn on
the ribbon when the Medal is worn.
10. Applications for the Efficiency Medal and Clasps-Applications for the Medal and/or
Clasps should be made in writing by the Commanding Officer of the Corps of the
Auxiliary Force in Fiji in which the warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, or man is
or was serving when he completed the period of qualifying service, and should be
supported by a statement in Form A appended to these Regulations of his service
qualifying for the Medal and/or Clasps. Commanding Officers will forward their
recommendations through the usual channel of correspondence to the Governor-General
together with a certificate that the person recommended has completed the qualifying
period of 12, 18, or 24 years' efficient service and that he is in every way deserving of the
Efficiency Medal or Clasp.
11. Grant of the Medal and Clasps-The Medal and/or Clasps will be awarded on the
authority of the Governor-General or Officer Administering the Government and a
notification of such awards will be published in the Gazette.
12. Loss and replacement - When a Medal or Clasp has been lost and it is desired to
replace it, a declaration must be made before a magistrate staling the circumstances under
which the loss occurred, and the rank, name, and corps of the person to whom the Medal
or Clasp belonged. This declaration should be forwarded to the Governor-General
through the usual channel of correspondence in the case of a member who is still serving,
and direct in the case of a person who has retired. The Medal and any Clasp or Clasps
lost therewith will be replaced, on payment, if the explanation as to loss is considered
satisfactory.
13. Forfeiture and restoration -
(a) A recipient of the Medal who suffers death by sentence of a Military Court or
is dismissed or removed from his corps or regiment for misconduct shall forfeit
the Medal, and any Clasp or Clasps awarded to him, unless the Governor-General
shall otherwise direct.
(b) A recipient of the Medal who has been convicted of an offence of the
following nature, viz., treason, sedition, mutiny, cowardice, desertion, or
disgraceful conduct of an unnatural kind (under section 18(5) of the Army Act),
or who, while subject to military law, is convicted by the civil power shall be
liable at the discretion of the Governor-General to forfeit the Medal and any Clasp
or Clasps awarded to him.
© A Medal and any Clasps so forfeited may be restored by the Governor-General
at his discretion.
(d) A notice of forfeiture or restoration shall in every case be published in the
Gazette.
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Here is photo of RBDF member with unknown medals.
The second medal with ribbon light green, light blue and red is for the 5th Summit of the Americas Medal at Port of Spain, 2009
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The medal with the ribbon green, white, green
ROYAL BAHAMAS DEFENCE FORCE (INAUGURATION MEDAL) REGULATIONS
[Commencement 1st April, 1982]
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (Inauguration Medal) Regulations.
2. There shall be in respect of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force a medal (hereinafter referred to as “the medal”) to commemorate the inauguration of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force.
3. The medal shall be a circular silver medal one and a half (1§) inches in diameter bearing on the obverse the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, on the reverse an emblematic design consisting of an anchor in a circle bearing the words “Royal Bahamas Defence Force” surrounded by a laurel wreath and surmounted by a shield bearing a representation of the Santa Maria and a demisun, and below, the figures “1979”.
4. (1) The Governor-General may, on the advice of the Minister after consultation with the Commander of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, award the medal to —
(a) any present or past member of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force; and
(b) any civilian who was instrumental in the establishment and organisation of the Force, as may be designated as being so instrumental by the Minister.
(2) The name of any person to whom the medal is awarded shall be published in the Gazette.
5. The medal shall be worn on the left breast suspended by means of a ribbon one and a half (1§) inches in width and shall be green with a white strip one half (§) inch in width in the centre of the ribbon.
6. (1) The Governor-General may, on the advice of the Minister after consultation with the Commander of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, cancel the award to any person of the medal and the person shall forthwith return the medal to such person as may be designated by the Governor-General to receive it.
(2) A notice of the cancellation of the medal shall in every case be published in the Gazette.
7. If a medal is lost it may on the advice of the Minister be replaced at the expense of the person to whom it was awarded.
8. Any person who —
(a) not having been awarded a medal under these Regulations wears the medal or any other medal or decoration so nearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive; or
(b) falsely represents himself to be a person who is or was entitled to wear such medal; or
© without lawful authority or excuse supplies or offers to supply such medal to any person not authorised to wear it, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.0 -
File Name: Books and articles relating spanish ODM
File Submitter: Antonio Prieto
File Submitted: 12 Aug 2013
File Category: European States
Books, articles and other references for spanish orders, medals and decorations
All languages
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Thank you to "Rogi" for the translations
I see that the reverse inscripcion as the same of the logo for the Ministry of National Defence
http://www.mnd.go.kr/mbshome/mbs/mnd/index.jsp
For the obverse I would have expected that the translation was associated with peace operations, peacekeeping or similar instead of the Gulf War, for which there is another medal with another design
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Any notice for the Rwanda Peace Support Operations (PSM)?
Thank you
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Thank you
It's possible use the image?. Also it's possible known the translation of the inscriptions
The reverse design appears the emblem of the Ministry of National Defence
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Any have notice and/or images for a medal of ROK Peacekeeping Operations? P.K.O
The ribbon is green with a yellow central stripe
Thank you
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Maybe it's a personal insignia. It seems that the marquis crown is insid. The mantle carries the cross of the Order of Santiago
Do not think it's an decoration, because I have not seen anything like it before in this areaFor spanish books/references recommendations on ODM please see:
http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/files/file/111-books-and-articles-relating-spanish-odm/
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The medal of Alphonse XII will be of silver and or white metal, circular of 35 millimeters of diameter, with a button in the top part for which a long ring for the ribbon. In the obverse the bust of the King Alphonse XII and around the following inscription: ALFONSO XII, A LOS EJÉRCITOS EN OPERACIONES (ALFONSO XIIth, TO THE ARMIES IN OPERATIONS). In the back it will have a circular border of laurel, witha royal crown and in the center in three horizontal lines it will be read: VALOR, DISCIPLINA, LEALTAD (VALUE, DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY). The ribbn is yellow, with two red vertical lists, of 5 millimeters of width each one, equidistant other 5 millimeters of the edges
The culminating facts of the campaign will be represented by bars in which the name of the fact will register, saving itself the Government the faculty to determine the battles, sites of squares or operations that by his importance deserve to be recorded in the bar
To have right to the use of the medal, it will be necessary to go a year of operations or of garrison in strong squares, etc., nailed in territory of the war, at the head of the enemy, counting from January 1, 1875 .To have been injured. To go six months of operations or harness of the expressed form, having been present in addition at three actions of war.
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Some bars for the Medal of Alfonso XII
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For the Medal of Alfonso XII (date of creation and inscription)
8.9.1875: Pamplona, Cantavieja, Treviño y Seo de Urgel31.12.1875: Miravalles27.3.1876: Oria y Elgueta8.4.1876: Olot, Junquera, Peña-Plata, Vera, Santa Bárbara y Estella13.6.1876: Guetaria y Cantabria30.4.1880: Esquinza-Oteiza y Líneas de OrioFor the Civil War Medal of 1873-1874 (date of creation and inscription)13.6.1876: Sevilla, Valencia, Cartagena, Velavieta, Muru, Puente de Guardiola, Castellar de Nuch, San Marcos y San Marcial, Hernani e Irún.24.12.1878: Cantabria, Cádiz y Mediterráneo.11.10.1879: Cantabria y Carraca (for the Navy).15.3.1881: Sarriá.10.12.1892: Arés de Maestre.Also please see:
http://coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/ma12.htm
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On May 23, in conjunction with 10 years of Mongolian peacekeeping activity, the Armed Forces HQs declared and summarized the ‘Monthly Campaign for Ten Creative Works’. It has been over ten years since 2002 when UN military observers were dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo and almost 6000 Mongolian military servicemen were deployed to 12 countries on 3 continents, successfully fulfilling their duties, accumulating experience, building up a demonstrable record of success, improving foreign language levels and facilitating the creation of the “Armed forces development fund”. More than 500 Mongolian soldiers are deployed today in foreign countries helping to create conditions for lasting peace and security. At the ceremony, some military servicemen were awarded with the medals ‘For Peace in Africa’ and ‘For Peace in Afghanistan.
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I remember only
José Pereda, Habana maker of the Order of Military Merit and Order of Saint Hermenegildo crosses
B. Gutiérrez, Habana maker of Orden de San Hermenegildo0 -
Fantastic
Thank you for sharing
More medals to investigate
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Dear Sir
Unfortunatelly I have only these works in spanish
You need any info?. Perhaps I can translate by electronic means
Best regards
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File Name: LA MEDALLA
File Submitter: Antonio Prieto
File Submitted: 06 Jul 2013
File Category: European States
Generic info about spanish medals and decorarions: medallist, makers, shops, cartes, etc.
Spanish Language
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Thank you
Perhaps I have some confussion between the Srpska Republic and the Republic of Serbia
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Any info for the unkowns ribbons os these plate?
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A pic of the Chief of Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, general Ljubisa Dikovic, visit Madrid with the Spanish Chief of Defence
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In Riga Hospital were two Latvian nurses assigned to the convalescent Spanish Volunteer Legion. In this picture we see one of them, named Fanny. Work clothes for hospital units used by it, was different from that used by German and Spanish as well as distinctive or nurse brooch worn on the neck. Hospital Riga, January 25, 1944
Any have a good image of the brooch of the Latvian nurses in the Riga Hospital in 1944?
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File Name: AWARDS TO SPANISH MILITARY ENGINEERS
File Submitter: Antonio Prieto
File Submitted: 30 May 2013
File Category: European States
Please find enclosed my latest work about the awards for the spanish military engineers: medals, decorations, prices
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A complete study and presentation
Thank you
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FIJI ODM
in Rest of the World: Militaria & History
Posted · Edited by Antonio Prieto
LONG SERVICE AND GOOD
CONDUCT (MILITARY) MEDAL
THE MEDAL FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT (MILITARY)
(FIJI) REGULATIONS
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
REGULATION
1. Short title
2. Purpose of the Medal
3. Subsidiary title and emblem
4. Eligibility for award of Medal and Clasp
5. Qualifying service
6. Standard of character and conduct required
7. Eligibility of commissioned officers in certain circumstances
8. Recommendation
9. Award of the Medal or Clasp
10. Forfeiture and restorations
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Made by the Governor under the Royal Warrant
of 23rd September 1930
Short title
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct
(Military) (Fiji) Regulations.
Purpose of the Medal
2. The Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct (Military) (hereinafter referred to as
the Medal) and a clasp to be attached to the ribbon by which the Medal is suspended
(hereinafter referred to as the Clasp) are awarded for long service and good conduct by
warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Regular Force of the
Royal Fiji Military Forces who have performed the requisite qualifying service as
hereafter defined:
Provided that prior service in any of the regular or permanent Forces of any other part of
the Commonwealth, duly certified, which has not qualified for any other long service, or
efficiency award shall count towards such qualifying service to the extent hereafter
specified.
Subsidiary title and emblem
3.-(1) The subsidiary title "Fiji" shall be inscribed on the bar attached to the mount of the
Medal to denote that at the time when the recipient qualified for the award of the Medal
he was serving in the Regular Force of the Royal Fiji Military Forces.
(2) The Clasp will be denoted by the wearing on the ribbon of a silver rose emblem, but
only when the Medal itself is not worn.
Eligibility for award of Medal and Clasp
4.-(1) The medal will be awarded as a reward for long service and good conduct to all
warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and soldier of the Regular Force of the
Royal Fiji Military Forces have completed eighteen years of qualifying service as
hereinafter defined and whose character and conduct have been irreproachable
throughout their service and who are recommended by their Commanding Officers as
being in every way worthy of the distinction.
(2) The Clasp will be awarded to all warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and
soldiers who having been awarded the Medal completed a further period of eighteen
years qualifying service as hereinafter defined and whose character and conduct have
been irreproachable throughout their service and who are specially recommended by their
Commanding Officers.
Qualifying service
5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, the following will count as qualifying
service for the Medal and for the Clasp:-
(a) service in the Regular Force of the Royal Fiji Military Forces as from the date
of attestation, including service under the age of eighteen years;
(b) mobilized service in the Royal Fiji Military Forces Reserves;
© embodied service in the Royal Fiji Military Forces Territorial Force;
(d) previous service in any of the regular or permanent Forces of any other part of
the Commonwealth, to the extent that such service was permitted as reckonable
towards, but had not qualified for, the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct
in the Force in which it was performed.
(2) Leave without pay for any period in excess of twenty-eight days at any one time shall
not count as qualifying service unless granted for a purpose considered by the
Commander, Royal Fiji Military Forces to be in the interest of the Force.
(3) Qualifying service need not be continuous.
Standard of character and conduct required
6. The standard of character and conduct required for a grading of "irreproachable" shall
normally be a Regimental Conduct Sheet clear of adverse entries and no recommendation
shall be submitted unless this condition has been fulfilled;
Provided that in exceptional and very deserving cases a recommendation for an award
may be submitted if in the opinion of his Commanding Officer the only offences recorded
on the Regimental Conduct sheet of the warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or
soldier in respect of whom recommendation is made are of a minor or technical nature
and there is no evidence of deliberate misconduct, and in every such case the
recommendation shall be accompanied by a statement setting out details of any
mitigating circumstances and the reasons why it is recommended that the normal
qualifications should be set aside.
Eligibility of commissioned officers in certain circumstances
7.-(1) Where a warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier is appointed to a
commission in the Regular Force of the Royal Fiji Military Forces at any time after the
2nd day of September, 1939, he shall be eligible to qualify for the award of the Medal
provided that not less than twelve years of such service were completed in the ranks.
(2) Where a warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier is appointed to a
commission in the Regular Force of the Royal Fiji Military Forces at any time after the
2nd day of September, 1939, and has completed the first nine years of the second period
of approved qualifying service in the ranks he shall, if in possession of the Medal, be
eligible to qualify for the award of the Clasp.
Recommendation
8.-(1) Every recommendation for the award of the Medal or Clasp shall be initiated by the
Commanding Officer of the warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier
concerned, and, accompanied by a certificate, signed by the officer making the
recommendation, as to the eligibility of such warrant officer, non-commissioned officer
or soldier for such award, shall be submitted by the Commander, Royal Fiji Military
Forces through the normal channels to the Governor-General for his consideration.
(2) A Commanding Officer, may, in a case where he does not wish to recommend the
award of the Medal or Clasp to a warrant officer, non commissioned officer or soldier
who would otherwise be eligible, issue a certificate to that effect, such certificate being
noted in the records of the warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier
concerned.
Award of the Medal or Clasp
9.-(1) The Medal or Clasp will be awarded on the authority of the Governor-General and
notification of every such award shall be published by notice in the Gazette.
(2) Presentation of the Medal or Clasp should, if practicable, be made at a regimental
parade.
Forfeiture and restorations
10.-(1) If the character and conduct of any person to whom the Medal or the Medal and
Clasp has been awarded ceases to be irreproachable his Commanding Officer shall at
once withdraw the Medal or Medal and Clasp and report the case to the Commander,
Royal Fiji Military Forces, for submission through the usual channels to the Governor-
General who may order the forfeiture of the Medal or of the Medal and Clasp.
(2) Any Medal or Medal and Clasp forfeited under the provisions of this regulation may,
in the discretion of the Governor-General be restored at any time.
(3) Notice of every forfeiture or restoration of the Medal or Medal and Clasp shall be
published by notice in the Gazette.