- medal

MEDAL. A badge of metal, struck in honour of some valiant achievement, or to commemorate some great event, or remarkable discovery.

               It is borne suspended from the shield, and is frequently given as a charge in Coat Armour.

               ALBERT MEDAL. This decoration was instituted 7th March, 1866, to be awarded, in cases where it shall be considered fit to such persons as shall endanger their own lives in saving, or endeavouring to save the lives of others from shipwreck or other perils of the sea.

               There are two classes.

               The Medal of the First Class is of gold, enamelled dark blue with Monogram V and A interlaced with an anchor erect in gold, surrounded with a Garter in bronze, inscribed in raised letters of gold “ For Gal-lantry in Saving Life at Sea,’’ and surmounted by a Crown representing that of Prince Albert. The Ribbon is dark-blue, 1 3/8 inch width, with four white longitudinal stripes. P. 25a, f. 3.

               In the Second Class the medal is entirely of bronze, the Ribbon 5/8 inch wide with two white stripes only.

               In April 1877, by the especial desire of Her Majesty the Albert Medal was to be given for saving life on Land.

               The First Class, the badge is gold, enamelled crimson, with Monogram V and A. The Second Class, the Medal is entirely of bronze.

               The Ribbon for both is crimson. P. 25a, f. 4.

               Naval and Military Medals.

               P. 25, f. 10, 12, 18 and 20.

                P. 25a, f. 16 and 17. (ELVN)

Medal В поздних гербах очень низкой геральдики часто используются ордена, медали, орденские планки (medals or medallions, clasps), жалуемые за военную службу. Иногда вводятся монеты, например, «pagoda» (т.е. мадрасская монета «Madras coin»), а в одном старом примере – монета, называемая «penny-yard penny». Это монета, которая, как говорят, чеканилась в замке Пенниярд (Penyard Castle, near Ross, Herefordshire).

«Or, a lion rampant gules, a canton of the last, thereon pendant from a mural crown of the first a riband of the second fimbriated azure, a representation of the gold medal and clasp presented for services in the Peninsular War» – MACDONALD, Perth.

«Erminois, on an eagle displayed double headed gules an eastern crown or; a chief vert charged with pendant from a chain two oval medallions is pale, the one bearing Arabic characters and the other a dagger in fesse, blade wavy, point downwards, the dexter in relief gold» – Sir Thomas S.RAFFLES, Lieutenant-Governor of Java, &c.

«Gules, two estoiles, in chief argent a lion passant; in base or on a chief of the second a wreath of laurel vert, enclosing two swords in saltire proper, pomels and hilts or; in chief the medal for Waterloo» – MCINNES, Charlton Kings, co. Gloucester.

«Azure, three palets gules on a chief azure an many martlets of the first with a canton of the second charged with the medal presented to him by the East India Company proper» – MARTIN, Wivenhoe, Essex.

Azure, two swords in saltire argent .... on a chief ermine a bee volant between two star pagodas proper» – BLADES, Sheriff of London, 1812.

«Azure, three penny-yard pence proper[i.e. argent]» – SPENCE.

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