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Medal
Award
The
Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve
, commonly known as the
Reserve Decoration
(
RD
) was a medal awarded to officers with at least fifteen years service in the
Royal Naval Reserve
(RNR) of the
United Kingdom
. The medal was instituted in 1908.
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Design and eligibility
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The medal consists of the
cypher
of the reigning monarch in
silver gilt
surrounded by a oval
silver
cable tied with a
reef knot
at the base and surmounted by a gilt crown. The reverse is plain, with later issues often engraved with the year of award.
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The ribbon, suspended from a ring, was dark green until October 1941, and green edged white thereafter.
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To qualify, fifteen years' service was required (not counting service as a
midshipman
), with wartime service counting double. Clasps to the Reserve Decoration were awarded to recognise further periods of 15 years' service after the first award.
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When just the ribbon of the Decoration was worn, each clasp was indicated by a silver 'rosette' on the ribbon.
The
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration
was of the same design as the Reserve Decoration but was distinguished, from 1919, by a different ribbon. In 1966 the Royal Naval Reserve (drawn from the
Merchant Navy
) and the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
(civilian volunteers) were merged. Thereafter awards of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration were discontinued, with all reserve Royal Naval officers eligible for the Reserve Decoration.
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The Reserve Decoration and the
Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal
for RNR ratings were both replaced by a combined-services
Volunteer Reserves Service Medal
on 1 April 1999.
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References
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External links
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Long and Meritorious Service Medals of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations
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Regular military
meritorious
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service medals
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Civilian long
service medals
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Volunteer
and part-time
long service
decorations
and medals
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