edged in black and featuring two narrow green stripes

RNR and RNVR personnel qualified if they served at ashore in France or Belgium

Lord Kitchener's army of volunteers boosted the British Army from two hundred thousand to approximately two million men

Whilst a more expensive form of mounting medals ready-to-wear

Royal Naval Reserve Long Service Medal EIIR Full Size Ribbon Bars edged in black and featuringRoyal Naval Reserve Long Service Medal EIIR. On the merger of the RNR and RNVR into the RNR in 1957 the ribbon changed from green with white edges and a central stripe to 5 equal stripes of blue, white, green, white and blue._This medal was superseded by the VRSM in 2000.