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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William McMillan; Royal Mint; MacKennal, Bertram
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Classification: 278
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English: British War Medal 1914-20, WW1 Part of medal set of 2-1233 Gnr John William Harkin, NZ Field Artillery, NZEF. circular silver medal; plain, straight non-swivelling suspender; with ribbon obverse- coinage head of King George V with the legend GEORGIUS V BRITT- OMN- REX ET IND- IMP- reverse- naked figure of St. George on horseback facing right. The horse is trampling on an eagle shield and cross bones symbolic of death; above the horse’s head is the sun, symbolic of victory. Around the edge are the dates, 1914 and 1918 ribbon- broad orange watered band down the centre, bordered with white, black and blue stripes named on edge- 2-1233 GNR. J.W. HARKIN. N.Z.E.F.
Date World War 1, 1914-18-wars; 1974; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; (1919); 1914-1920
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diameter: 36mm
width: 32mm
notes: medal

notes: ribbon
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1974.5
Place of creation England
Exhibition history Display: 2B
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, N1564
Notes British War Medal 1914-20, WW1 Medal awarded to 2-1233 Gnr John William Harkin, NZ Field Artillery, NZEF. John Harkin enlisted at Trentham Camp on 20 December 1914 and served as a Gunner in the Howitzer Battery, NZFA. He embarked from NZ on 14-2-1915; during service on Gallipoli became ill and admitted to Hospital ship at Anzac Cove on 6 June 1915 and then to 1st Australian Gen. Hospital, Cairo on 12 June 1915. After a short time in convalescent camp he was invalided back to NZ as permanently unfit and discharged on 25 September 1915 on medical grounds. Died at Te Aroha on 6 October 1917.
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