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Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve

Medal

Field	Value
name	Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve (Reserve Decoration)
image	Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, George VI.png
image_size	140px
caption	King George VI version, 1937-47
presenter	the United Kingdom Royal Navy Reserve
type	Long service medal
eligibility	Officers of the Royal Navy Reserve
awarded_for	At least fifteen years of active service
status	Superseded by the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal
post-nominals	R.D.
established	1908
lastawarded	1999
higher	Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal
same	Territorial Decoration
Efficiency Decoration
Air Efficiency Award
lower	Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
image2	Royal Naval Reserve Decoration.PNG
image2_size	120px
caption2	Ribbon bar from 1941

|post-nominals=R.D. Efficiency Decoration Air Efficiency Award

The Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, commonly known as the Reserve Decoration (RD) was a medal awarded to officers with at least fifteen years service in the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) of the United Kingdom. The medal was instituted in 1908.

Design and eligibility

The medal consists of the cypher of the reigning monarch in silver gilt surrounded by an oval silver cable tied with a reef knot at the base and surmounted by a gilt crown. The reverse is plain, with later issues often engraved with the year of award.

To qualify, fifteen years' service was required (not counting service as a midshipman), with wartime service counting double. Clasps to the Reserve Decoration were awarded to recognise further periods of 15 years' service after the first award. When just the ribbon of the Decoration was worn, each clasp was indicated by a silver 'rosette' on the ribbon.

The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration was of the same design as the Reserve Decoration but was distinguished, from 1919, by a different ribbon. In 1966 the Royal Naval Reserve (drawn from the Merchant Navy) and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (civilian volunteers) were merged. Thereafter awards of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration were discontinued, with all reserve Royal Naval officers eligible for the Reserve Decoration.

The Reserve Decoration and the Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal for RNR ratings were both replaced by a combined-services Volunteer Reserves Service Medal on 1 April 1999.

References

{{London Gazette. (17 March 2003)
Captain H. Taprell Dorling.. "Ribbons and Medals.".
John Mussell (ed).. (2014). "Medal Yearbook 2015.".
John Mussell (ed).. (2014). "Medal Yearbook 2015.".
"''Medals: campaigns, descriptions and eligibility: Volunteer Reserves Service Medal''". Ministry of Defence.

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