Now how we honour the work and contribution people make to the community is as varied as the tasks they undertook.
For those in industry and retail businesses it may well be the carriage clock, an extra bonus or a heap of other benefits which can be claimed back during retirement.
And for many there will also be the medal.
It is primarily an award for manual and administrative-grade civil servants, including clerks, workers in H M Dockyards and, prior to 1969 when it moved from central government control, the Post Office”.*
I have to be honest and say I was not aware of the medal until David Harrop sent over a picture of this one which he acquired recently.
I know the name of the recipient, but I am minded not to say who he was or research his service record.
Suffice to say that it is good that people should be rewarded for what they do.
Picture; Imperial Service Medal, date unknown but sometime between 1953 and now, courtesy of David Harrop
*Imperial Service Medal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Service_Medal
Widely known, if a little derogatorily, as "The Postman's Medal" as they were commonly (if perhaps erroneously) perceived to be the single largest group of recipients. Apart from listings in the London Gazette, very difficult to research. Tends to be given now not at the 25 year point, but on retirement.
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