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Description: | A small, circular badge of gold coloured metal with a blue enamelled border. Towards the end of 1914, the Admiralty made the first official move to recognise essential war workers. The 'On War Service 1914' badge was first issued to "workmen whose services are indispensable for the rapid completion of HM Ships and Armaments". An Admiralty memo of 26th December 1914 gave this badge the name "Admiralty War Service Badge" and laid down basic criteria for its issue: Men to whom it was given had to be genuine essential war workers, and indiscriminate issues must not be made. It was stressed that no man who could possibly be spared to join the army should be given a badge; that any man withdrawn from essential war work or leaving the employment of the company must return his badge to his employer; and that unauthorised transfer of a badge from one man to another was forbidden.
'On War Service' badge, issue number 65896. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | First World War (1914-1918) | Temporal: | 1914 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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