Modern service medal - General Strike 1926, "National Emergency" – HCR135868

Obverse

Inscription:

FOR SERVICE IN / NATIONAL / EMERGENCY / MAY 1926

Design:

helmeted figure of Britannia seated holds a olive branch, in the field a winged emblem of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company between a rose and a thistle

Reverse

Inscription:

LARGITAS / MVNERIS / SALUS / REIPUBLICAE

Design:

three draped figures hold locomotives in their outstretched hands; acrostic formed by inscription for initials of the railway (L.M.S.R.)

Information

Person

Ernest Gillick (engraver)

Mint

Tower

Note

The medal was given to those who had given service on behalf of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. The Mint Report for 1926 records that 7,370 medals were struck in bronze.

Period

Modern

Kind

medal

Metal

bronze

Reign

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

62.77

Diameter (mm)

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition date

11/1953

Source

M. H. Grant

Acquisition credit

Purchased, 1953.

Translation (reverse)

Generosity of service, wellbeing of State

Reference

BHM : 4210

Note:

p. 132

Reference

Eimer, C. - 1987 - British commemorative medals and their values : 2003

Note:

p. 230

Contributors to this coin record

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