Interesting. 1. The suspender is to hang the medal from. One to five place bars were sent out (if you had more than five you overlapped them to fit the five-place bar. The ribbons were made long enough to allow for a piece to be cut off for a ribbon bar. At this time these would be a piece of card, plastic, or buckram with the ribbon(s) sewn around it, then the whole was stitched to the uniform. 2. This also verifies that it was Dodd's only medal. 3. If this is his only medal, then he had a minimum of 28 days' service. 4. The lack of a Canadian Volunteer Service Medal might mean that he was an N.R.M.A. man (conscript) who did not go active, but since the CVSM required 18 months' service (6 months, if part was outside Canada), he could have been a late enlistment who served in Canada. If he was active service and invalided, he would have been granted the CVSM.