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Q!nmmnuUttalt~ of Australia
PUBLISHED
[Reg£~tered at the General P03t Office, Melbourne, for transm~s1on by pod
No. 91.] CANBERRA, WEDNESDAY, 30m NOVEMBER.
GEORGE R.
ROYAL WARRANT.
THE AUSTRALIA SERVICE MEDAL 1939-45.
G~orge the Sixth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaill,
Ireland aud the British Dominions beyolld the Seas, King,
Defender of the Faith, t() All to whom These Presents
::ilJaU COllle:
Gi'ecting:
HEREAS We in Our Goyernmcllt of the Commonwealth
W of Australia haye taken int<> Our Royal consideration
the .scnices rendered during the \Var of 1939 to 1945 by all
Ilwlllhert> of the Australian Armed Forces and Australian
I\lerc~l1ltilc ~Iarine and by civil members of the Royal Aus-
tralialJ Air Force HeseHe as aircrew ill Australian registered
eiyil aircraft ill operational areas, who, when their country
\\"as ill dalJger, answered the call and saw service in their
country's defence;
Aud \yliereas \Ve are desirous of recognizing this service
tu the COllllllonwealth of Alliitralia;
\Vc do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs !lnd Successors
institute and Neate a new Medal.
]. The Medal 6hall be designated and styled" The Australia
Service Medal 1939-45".
2. The :Medal shall be circular in form and of nickel silYer,
an alloy of cappel', nickel and zinc, and shall on the obyene
bear the Crowned Effigy of the SoYereign, and 011 the reverse
the coat of arms of the Commonwealth of Australia,
snrroullded hy the words "The Australia Service Medal
1939-45" .
3. The pCrtiOllS eligible for the Medal shall be those of Our
faithful subjects and other~, male and female, who, between
the 3nl September, 1939, and the 2nd September, 1945,
relldcred the required service in the Australian Armed Forces,
in the Australian Mercantile nlarine, or ae. civil members of
the Royal Australia)) Air Force Reserve who served as aircrew
ill ci\-il aircraft in operatiOllal areas.
4. HepresentatiYcs of philanthropic bodies, official pre~f;
r-OlTl'spondents, official photographers and other ciyil personnel
attached to the Armed Forces in an official capacity for full-
time duty in uniforIll shall albo be eligible.
;'j. Eligibility shall not be affected by the grant of an~' other
;,.:eneral a \\':1 I'd for service in the war of 1939-45.
n. Qllly those \dlO haye ),cceived, or would he l'lltiUed to
I'l'('piu', ;ill ]Hlllorahic disclwrgp !'hall hr eligihle.
Prillted and Published for the GOVERNMENT of the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA hy
L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
554cO.-No. 91.-PP..ICE 3D.
<&Ultttt.
BY AUTHORITY.
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[1949.
7. The period of qualifying service for full-time duty shall
be eighteen months, at home or overseas. For this purpose
any period of continuous training shall count as full-time
duty. In the case of members of the Alliitralian Mercantile
Marine, it Ehall be a requirement that the eighteen months
shall have been seryed at sea. In the case of civil aircrew
personnel eligible for the Medal, it shall be a requirement that
they shall ha,-e made at least three separate flights over, or
three or more landings in, military operational land areas,
this rule being waived ouly in favour of those whose full-time
service of less than eighteen mouth~ was brought to an end
by death due to sen-ice or by disability due to service.
S. The period of qualifying service for part-time duty shall
be three years, provided that where full-time service of less
thall eighteen months ha'3 been rendered, the period of full-
time tiervice shall ('ouut doubly towards the part-time sen-ice
qualificLl.tioll, and provided also that defence duty must have
ueen p€rformed on at least sixty days during the service.
D. Full-time service for a lesser period than eighteen
months, or part-time service for a lesser period than three
years, if brought to an end by death due to service, or by
disability due to service, 6hall qualify for an award.
10. The ~ledal shall be worn all the left breast suspended by
a khaki ribbon, one and a quarter inches in width, edged dark
hluc and light blue respectively, each nine thirty-seconds of an
inch wide, with two intervening red IStripes, each one sixteenth
of an inch wide. The ribbon shall be worn with the dark blue
~tripe furthest from the left shoulder.
11. The Medal shall be worn imllledia tely after the War
~Iedal issued by Us in recognition of sCHie(' during the Second
\Yorld 'Var.
12. It shall be ('ompetent for Our GoYe1'llor-Gclleral for the
time heing t<> cancel and allnul the award to any person of tllt'
alJm-e ~Iedal, and thereupon the name of such person in the
Hegister shall be erased, hut it shall he competellt for Our
GO'·ernor-General to restore. any Medal which may haye heen
80 forfeited.
13. It it'; ordained that it shall be \'Olllpl't.l'nt for OUI'
GOYl'rnor-Gelleral for the time heing til m;1 ke I'cgltlations to
carry out 1.hc purposes of this \Varrant.
Ginn at Ollr Cuurt at St. James's Oil t.he thirtieth day of
August One thousand Nine HUIHirccl alJd FOl'tv-ilil1~
in the t11irtcenth Year of Our Reigll. .
Dy His ~Iajesty'::; Comlllalld,
.T. B'. CHIFLEY
Prime ~lillistl')'.