item details
NameUnited Fire Brigades of New Zealand Long Service Medal.
ProductionAnton Teutenberg; engraver; 1896; New Zealand
Classificationmedals
Materialssilver, silk, ribbon
DimensionsOverall: 39mm (width), 4mm (depth), 39mm (diameter)
Registration NumberNU007567
Credit linePurchased 1989 with Charles Disney Art Trust funds
Overview
A United Fire Brigades Association of New Zealand Long Service Medal in silver with ribbon and Two Years Service bar. The obverse is raised with a figure of a fireman holding a hose, flanked by two shields, one bearing the Royal Arms and the other a device of a fireman's helmet superimposed on two crossed fire axes, also the legend "United Fire Brigades Association N Z Auxilium in Periculo". Reverse is inscribed ""Long Service Medal Presented to Branchman John E. Hall by the Palmerston N. Borough Council for five years service completed May 1896."