United Kingdom: Volunteer Officers' Decoration

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Instituted: 25 July 1892.
On 24 May 1894 extended to the Colonies of India, Canada, etc, as the Volunteer Officers' Decoration for India and the Colonies.
Discontinued in the UK: 1908, being replaced by the Efficiency Decoration, but continued in some Crown Dependencies until 1930.

Awarded: To efficient and thoroughly capable officers of proven capacity for long and meritorious service in the part-time Volunteer Force of the United Kingdom.

Victoria
1892-1901
Victoria, Obverse Victoria, Reverse
Edward VII
1801-1908 (UK)
1901-1910 in some Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man).
Edward VII, Obverse Edward VII, Reverse
George V
1910-1930 in some Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man).
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