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General Service Badge

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1940.

Reference:

Accession number: 00002M, 1982-006 X PIC

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2856799

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National Archives of Canada medal collection

General Service Badge
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Date(s):

1940.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 badge; white metal

Scope and content:

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Shield with three maple leaves on a single stem; surmounted by a crown and with a scroll below

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General note:

Order in Council P.C.1022, signed on March 29th, 1940, authorized the creation of a War Service Badge 'Service' Class. This 'general service' badge would be awarded to "Members of the Naval, Military or Air Forces of Canada who have declared their willingness, or who have engaged, to serve in any of the said forces on active service beyond Canada and Overseas, during the present war, and who have been honourably ceased to serve on active service: 1. After not less than three months of continuous paid service. / 2. By reason of physical disability"

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: obverse: GENERAL SERVICE, Inscription: Reverse: 551074 / PENALTY / FOR MISUSE / 500 DOLLARS / OR SIX MONTHS / IMPRISONMENT / STERLING

Source:

Private

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1982-006 MED

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00002M
1982-006 X PIC
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Object

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10673 Item no. assigned by LAC 2M

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1982-6-2M

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