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John Grierson (Pilot)

Test pilot Hurricanes 1940 (citing Lord Beaverbrook in his introduction)Grierson, John (1946). Jet Flight. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co Ltd. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |coauthors= (help)

Colonial Forces Long Service

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
Type	Military award
Awarded for	Military service of twenty years
Presented by	the British Empire
Established	18 May 1899

Criteria

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal was awarded for twenty years long and meritorious service as a Warrant Officer, NCO or Man in one or more of the British Colonial Auxiliary Forces. Qualifying service could be had by serving in the colonial forces of more than one colony or protectorate, with service in the Militia and Volunteer Forces of the United Kingdom also eligible to be counted, so long as half of all qualifying service was rendered in the colonies or protectorates. Years of service in West Africa were counted as double. In 1923, the Royal Warrant was amended to count war time service in World War I as double, so long as the service, on the active list, was outside of the dominion, colonies, dependencies, and protectorates.

Appearance

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal is a circular silver medal, 1.42 inches in diameter. The reverse has an ornamental shield bearing the legend FOR / LONG SERVICE / IN THE / COLONIAL AUXILIARY / FORCES in five lines. Above the shield is the Imperial Crown with a spray of oak leaves to the left and a spray of laurel on the right. The obverse has the Sovereign of the day as follows:

Queen Victoria: A diademed and veiled effigy, facing left. The medallist's initials (TB, Sir Thomas Brock KCB RA) are in the field below the bust;

King Edward VII: The king is seen in Field Marshal's uniform, facing left, and the legend: EDWARDVS VII REX IMPERATOR The medallist's initials (DES, George William de Saulles) appear in the field under the bust;

King George V: The king is seen in Field Marshal's uniform, facing left, and the legend: GEORGIVS V BRITT : OMN : REX ET IND : IMP : The medallist's initials (DM, being the Australian Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal KCVO) appear under the shoulder of the bust.

The medal has a plain, straight suspender with a single-toe claw, with double scroll claw supports on the rim, attached to a straight, non-swivelling suspender. The ribbon is 1.25 inches wide.

In 1930, the award was replaced by the Efficiency Medal.

see the Veterans Affairs Canada website.

References

Category:Decorations of the British Army Category:Long and Meritorious Service Medals of Britain and the Commonwealth Category:Military awards and decorations of Australia Category:Military awards and decorations of Canada

Dora

President of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters 1933, (Argus 6 Nov 1933).

A joyous feeling dominates the work of Dora Serle (Mrs. Percival Serle), who is exhibiting oil paintings at Margaret Maclean's gallery, Kodak House, 252 Collins street. Mr. R. H. Croll opened the how yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Serle has attempted very difficult problems in the painting of flowers against light and bowls of flowers on window-sills. She is to be admired for tackling this subject matter, and she is rewarded by a number of highly successful efforts. These studies are well and sensitively handled, making up somewhat for the careless drawing of objects. Ellipses are always difficult to draw, and unfortunately for all of us must be correct-unless one be a modernist. Some sketches in a garden with a shadow patterning a wall are extremely good. The effect of sunlight is real, and the subjects in two cases are happily chosen. Colour formula dinned into us in bygone years is emphasised rather much by Mrs. Serle. Purple shadows are not as violent as she would suggest. The study of reflected light and the greater use of yellow in shadows would produce simpler and better results. One of the principal things about this show is its obvious sincerity. The pictures are definite attempts to give illusions of light. As a contrast to the easier and generally adopted method of painting flowers against an almost black background, this show is a relief. Odd craft on Hobart's waterfront supply subjects for other sketches. In these Mrs. Serle shows an ability to set down facts quickly and easily. (Argus 1 Apr 1936)

On 29 March 1910 he had married the artist Dora Beatrice Hake (1875-1968).

His wife Dora was born in South Melbourne on 2 September 1875. She studied at the National Gallery schools and with Phillips Fox, Jane Sutherland, Walter Withers, and Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn, Cornwall, England. In Paris in 1902 she revelled in the Impressionists, 'decided that was how I wanted to paint', and went on to grapple throughout her life with the interplay of colour and light. For several years before marriage she conducted an art school at Geelong. She was, for some seventy years, a member of the Victorian Artists' Society and from 1939 of the Independent Group of Artists; she was president of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters in 1933-34, represented them on the National Council of Women (Victoria), and was a member of the Lyceum Club. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and provincial galleries. She died at Hawthorn on 10 September 1968. Her sister Elsie Barlow (1876-1948) was also an artist, primarily a water-colourist, and was a founder of the Castlemaine Art Gallery. (ADB)