About: Volunteer's Medal 1940

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The Volunteer's Medal 1940–1945 was a 38mm in diameter circular bronze medal. The obverse bore the relief image of a soldier standing at ease holding a rifle with a bayonet, the soldier is superimposed over a large capital letter V in front of a rising sun. The reverse bore the relief image of the Flemish "lion rampant" below the inscription in Latin "VOLONTARIIS", below the lion, the dates "1940" and "1945".

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rdf:type	Military Award
rdfs:label	Volunteer's Medal 1940–1945
rdfs:comment	The Volunteer's Medal 1940–1945 was a 38mm in diameter circular bronze medal. The obverse bore the relief image of a soldier standing at ease holding a rifle with a bayonet, the soldier is superimposed over a large capital letter V in front of a rising sun. The reverse bore the relief image of the Flemish "lion rampant" below the inscription in Latin "VOLONTARIIS", below the lion, the dates "1940" and "1945".
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Status	No longer awarded
Name	Volunteer's Medal 1940–1945
Type	War medal
Caption	Reverse of the medal Ribbon of the Medal Volunteer's Medal 1940–1945
eligibility	Belgian citizens and foreign nationals
awarded by	18(xsd:integer)
Established	1945-02-16(xsd:date)
Image	100(xsd:integer) 140(xsd:integer)
for	Voluntary enlistment in the Belgian Armed Forces during the Second World War
abstract	The Volunteer's Medal 1940–1945 was a 38mm in diameter circular bronze medal. The obverse bore the relief image of a soldier standing at ease holding a rifle with a bayonet, the soldier is superimposed over a large capital letter V in front of a rising sun. The reverse bore the relief image of the Flemish "lion rampant" below the inscription in Latin "VOLONTARIIS", below the lion, the dates "1940" and "1945". The medal was suspended by a ring through the suspension loop from a 38mm wide silk moiré ribbon composed of fifteen 2mm wide alternating red and blue stripes and two 4mm wide blue edge stripes.

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