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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8206884, member: 20201"]1914-1918 WWI The British War Medal Silver [ATTACH=full]1438757[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1438758[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1438759[/ATTACH]  Silver Medal (36 mm / 29,09 g), with hanger,Obv.: GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP: , (Georgius V Britanniarum Omnium; Rex Et Indiae; Imperator - "George 5th of all the Britons (British people); King of India; Emperor") , head of King George V. facing left.Rev.: 1914 - 1918 , man riding on a rearing horse. The man shown is Saint George, the patron saint of England. He is shown naked, and is holding a short sword. This was supposed to symbolise the mental and physical strength that was needed to win the First World War.The horse is trampling a shield that showns the emblem of Prussia and the Axis Powers, which were the enemies the British and other Allies were fighting during World War One (the First World War). The horse is also trampling on a skull and cross-bones, and the rising sun, known as the Victory Sun can be seen by St. George's head. [ATTACH=full]1438760[/ATTACH] Edge: PNR is an acronym for Pioneer - WW1 REand R.E. is an acronym for Royal Engineers This medal was No. 93182 and was presented to J. Sneddon a Royal Engineer. The Corps of Royal Engineers in the First World War [ATTACH=full]1438762[/ATTACH] The war of 1914-1918 relied on engineering. Without engineers there would have been no supply to the armies, because the RE’s maintained the railways, roads, water supply, bridges and transport. RE’s also operated the railways and inland waterways. There would have been no communications, because the RE’s maintained the telephones, wireless and other signalling equipment. There would have been little cover for the infantry and no positions for the artillery, because the RE’s designed and built the front-line fortifications. It fell to the technically skilled RE’s to develop responses to chemical and underground warfare. And finally, without the RE’s the infantry and artillery would have soon been powerless, as they maintained the guns and other weapons. Little wonder that the Royal Engineers grew into a large and complex organization. [ATTACH=full]1438761[/ATTACH] The British War Medal was a medal given to people who had fought in the First World War. The medal was originally meant to be for people who had fought in the war between 5th August 1914 and 11th November 1918, but this was later changed to the years between 1914 and 1920. This was because a lot of people still lost their lives in the armed forces even after the war had ended, because they were clearing landmines or mines at sea.The British War Medal (often shortened to BWM) was awarded to both officers and men of the Royal Marines, Royal Navy, the Army and also the Dominion and Colonial Forces. The Dominion and Colonial Forces were the armed forces for the rest of the British Empire. To qualify for (be allowed to have) the medal, a member of the fighting forces had to have left his native country in any part of the British Empire whilst on military duty.There were over six and a half million British War Medals given out. Most of them are made of silver, but some rarer ones are made of bronze instead.[/QUOTE]

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