Book of Donmon Teith

Surveys the medals awarded to British personnel for military services from the First World War to operations of British forces in the opening years of the twent

At a time of imperial expansion, British forces were almost constantly in action against major powers, in wars of conquest, or in expeditions on the fringes of

Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior