Southern Railway Medal with bar, awarded to William H. Brown

This medal is one of many issued by the former Railway Companies and later by British Railways through the Railway Centres of the St John Ambulance Association. The Southern Railway medal was instituted in 1924 and discontinued on 1st January 1948 when the Big Four (Great Western, London and North Eastern, Midland and Scottish, and Southern) Railways were nationalised.

This object is on display

Object type

Medals

Medals and insignia

Railway Company Service Medal

Date

Approved: 29 January 1925
Presented: 1926
Regulation: 1924 - 1948

Medallist

T & B

Subject(s)

Railways

Associated person

Recipient: William H. Brown (active 1910s - 1920s)

Inscriptions

14 YEARS

obverse: SOUTHERN RAILWAY / CENTRE OF THE S^T. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

reverse: WILLIAM H. BROWN / 1926

Dimensions

Height x width: 95 x 36mm
Diameter: 35mm

Materials and technique

Silver

Catalogue number

2724.1