| Voluntary Medical Service Medal | |
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| Type | Long service medal |
| Awarded for | 15 years of service |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Presented by | the Monarch of the United Kingdom and the Dominions |
| Eligibility | Volunteers of the British Red Cross or St Andrew's First Aid |
| Post-nominals | None |
| Clasps | For each subsequent 5 years of service |
| Established | 1932 |
 Ribbon bar of the medal | |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | Service Medal of the Order of St John |
| Next (lower) | Women's Royal Voluntary Service Medal[1] |
TheVoluntary Medical Service Medal is a medal awarded bySt Andrew's First Aid and formerly by theBritish Red Cross. It was instituted in 1932 at the direction ofGeorge V.[2]
To qualify for the medal, a member must accrue fifteen years' continuous efficient service as afirst aid volunteer in either the Red Cross or St Andrew's providing a minimum of ten hours field service per year.[3] Service for the medal was retrospective to the creation ofVoluntary Aid Detachments in 1909.[4]
The medal is 36 millimetres (1.4 inches) in diameter and was designed byPercy Metcalfe.[5] Theobverse bears a symbolic representation ofFlorence Nightingale carrying a lamp. The reverse features a design of both theGeneva andSt Andrew's crosses to denote the two qualifying organisations. Between the upper arms of the St Andrew's Cross is the textLONG AND EFFICIENT SERVICE. The medal was originally made of silver, later of silver plated copper, and since the 1960s ofcopper-nickel. It is suspended from a straight swivel bar and hangs from a ribbon of red with yellow stripes at the edges and a thin white stripe in the centre.[6][2]
On the suspension ribbon of the medal,clasps embellished with the Geneva cross for Red Cross service or the St Andrew's cross for St Andrews First Aid service are worn to denote five additional years of qualifying service. In undress uniform, on theribbon of the medal, one silver Geneva or St Andrew's cross emblem is added to the medal ribbon for five additional years of service.[2] At twenty years of additional service the silver emblems are replaced by asilver-gilt emblem. Up to four silver-gilt emblems can replace the silver type to denote 25, 30, and 35 years of additional service in the applicable voluntary organisation.[4]
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