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Description: | Medal commemorating the founding of the 'Reindeer' Temperance Society. Obverse: Starboard broadside view of full-rigged ship under sail. Legend 'ROYAL NAVAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY'. Reverse: Within an olive wreath the inscription, 'INSTITUTED ON BOARD H.M.S. REINDEER JULY 1868'. Members of temperance societies agreed to abstain from alcohol. The original 'Reindeer' Temperance Society was expanded to a Royal Naval Temperance Society, covering the whole of the service, in 1871.
caption: Medal commemorating the Royal Naval Temperance Society, 1868 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Royal Naval Temperance Society medals Reindeer 1866 (HMS) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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