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8 Aug 2021: The DFC was instituted in June 1918, on the combination of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Navy's Royal Naval Air Service into the new Royal Air Force. ... It was to reward officers and warrant officers of the new Service for acts of valour while

8 Aug 2021: The Air Force Cross was instituted in 1918 for award to officers and warrant officers of the new Royal Air Force for courage and devotion to duty while not in active

8 Aug 2021: that issue was for a while continued, but the medal was updated, with new designs by William Wyon, in 1848.

8 Aug 2021: Between 1877 and 1879 a number of particularly difficult punitive expeditions were mounted by the British authorities, and in 1880 a medal was sanctioned for these that was a new issue

8 Aug 2021: 1904. In 1908, however, the reserve forces of Britain were reorganised and most of the Militia was subsumed into the new Territorial Force, which went on to become today's Territorial

8 Aug 2021: in the disastrous Gallipolli campaign, French troops in the theatre were withdrawn to Thessalonika to form a new Armée d'Orient facing Austro-Hungarian inroads into Serbia.

8 Aug 2021: to replace it entirely with a new medal of Edward VII, which was first issued in 1909. ... When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new obverse but the medal was otherwise unaltered.

8 Aug 2021: The India Medal of 1895 having needed alteration for its last issues due to the death of Queen Victoria, in 1908 it was decided to replace it entirely with a new ... When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new

8 Aug 2021: In fact combat was more or less endemic from 1896 to 1908 and beyond, and in 1897 the Egyptian Army obtained from the Khedive a new medal to be awarded for

8 Aug 2021: new monarch, and the Naval Long Service Medal was no exception.

8 Aug 2021: Britain to demand new trading concessions of China in 1854 to secure its most favoured nation' status. ... The British and French governments therefore amassed a new coalition force that arrived in China in 1860, its first objective being the capture of

8 Aug 2021: the 1850s led in 1854 to the design and issue of a General Service Medal for the theatre, for which bars would be issued as each new campaign merited.

8 Aug 2021: in 1896 the new India Medal was first issued.

8 Aug 2021: Raiding by Pindari tribesmen which resulted from this became the cause for a new war, and in 1817 British forces set out to arrest Baji Rao.

8 Aug 2021: Between 1877 and 1879 a number of particularly difficult punitive expeditions were mounted by the British authorities, and in 1880 a medal was sanctioned for these that was a new issue

8 Aug 2021: Sikh resentment of the British intrusion resulted in a new outbreak of war in 1847.

8 Aug 2021: Only in 1888 was this medal replaced by a new one for the Native Army, which was to be awarded for 20 years' service of irreproachable conduct.

8 Aug 2021: in 1882. It became a British Protectorate in 1888. Under the company the terms of the lease were considerably expanded, and new settlement organisation and taxation systems emplaced. ... His destruction of the Company's harbour at Pulau Gaya in 1897 led

8 Aug 2021: General Service Medal, 1923. In 1915 the variety of likely engagements that British forces would face in the future had led to the creation of a new Naval General Service Medal.

8 Aug 2021: where new and more favourable trading arrangements were decided on in collaboration with the Chinese.