Ultra Long Service Medal of the Order of St John

Object type

Medals

Medals and insignia

Ultra Long Service Medal of the Order of St John

Date

Production: 2019
In use: 2020 -
Regulation: 2022 -

Associated organisation

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (1999-present)

Inscriptions

obverse: VICTORIA+D+G+BRITT+REG+F+D+IND+IMP

reverse: THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM / FOR SERVICE

Dimensions

Height: 85mm
Diameter: 38mm

Materials and technique

90/10 gilding metal, gilt, struck, with a nylon ribbon

Physical description

A round, gold medal. The obverse depicts the effigy of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria derived from a bust carved by her daughter, The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll with a circumscription. The reverse depicts, between sprigs of St John’s Wort, five circles showing, the Imperial Crown, the Royal Arms, the Arms of The Prince of Wales who was the first Grand Prior under the Royal Charter of 1888, the Crest of that Prince of Wales and the Arms of the Order as they were immediately prior to 1926, with a circumscription.

The ribbon has three black and two white stripes of equal width. The central black stripe is dissected by a 3mm gold stripe.

The medal is suspended from a straight bar fixed suspension on an ornate foot fitting positioned at 12 0'clock. It is worn with the bright plated steel brooch with soldered joint and catch on the top reverse of the ribbon.

Exhibition history

By Royal Appointment, Museum of the Order of St John, 2019

Credit line

Transfer from St John International, 2019

Catalogue number

2019.15.1