Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Colonial_Auxiliary_Forces_Officers'_Decoration an entity of type: Thing

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, post-nominal letters VD, was established in 1899 as recognition for long and meritorious service as a part-time commissioned officer in any of the organized military forces of the British Colonies, Dependencies and Protectorates. It superseded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies in all these territories, but not in the Indian Empire. rdf:langString
rdf:langString Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
rdf:langString Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
rdf:langString Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
xsd:integer 38899248
xsd:integer 997362859
rdf:langString Twenty years meritorious service
xsd:integer 32
rdf:langString First King George V version, 32 mm ribbon
xsd:integer 25
rdf:langString Officers of part-time Colonial Forces
xsd:integer 1899
xsd:integer 300
rdf:langString Discontinued in 1930
rdf:langString Military long service decoration
rdf:langString Order of wear
rdf:langString VD
rdf:langString The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, post-nominal letters VD, was established in 1899 as recognition for long and meritorious service as a part-time commissioned officer in any of the organized military forces of the British Colonies, Dependencies and Protectorates. It superseded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies in all these territories, but not in the Indian Empire. In 1930, the decoration, along with the Volunteer Officers' Decoration and the Territorial Decoration, were superseded by the Efficiency Decoration in an effort to standardise recognition across the British Empire.
rdf:langString Indian Volunteer Forces Officers' Decoration
xsd:nonNegativeInteger 11147

data from the linked data cloud