Orders, Decorations and Medals

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), V.R. (John Warren, late Sergt. J Batt. N.Z. Regt. Art. Vols. (1898)) some contact marks, very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, An Extensive Collection of Medals for Long and Meritorious Service.

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Oldham & Delahunt in Orders, Decorations and Medals Awarded to New Zealanders, state that a total of 361 awards of the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal with the effigy of Queen Victoria, were issued between 16 February 1898 and 9 February 1910. Captain G. T. Stagg in The Long Service Medals awarded in the New Zealand Army 1887-1957 records that from its institution in 1898 until 30 April 1902, there were 137 awards of which 120 were Victoria issue. However J. M. A. Tamplin in The Volunteer Long Service Medal notes that in New Zealand, the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal with the effigy of Queen Victoria was issued for some time after the medal was replaced by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Medal. New Zealand recipients gazetted the ‘Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal’ actually received the ‘Volunteer Force Long Service Medal’. It is presumed that the authorities in New Zealand were using up the old stock already purchased from the United Kingdom. Awards of the old Volunteer Force Long Service Medal continued to be made until about 1910.

Awarded the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal as Sergeant 'J' Battery, New Zealand Artillery Volunteers, on 19 October 1887, and the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal as Sergeant, Late East Coast Hussars, on 4 April 1898.