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{{Infobox military award
| name             = Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
| image            = Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal (Victoria).jpg
| image_size       = 300px
| caption          = Queen Victoria version
| presenter       = [[Queen Victoria|the Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India]]
| country          = [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px]] [[United Kingdom]]
| type             = Military long service medal
| eligibility      = All ranks of part-time Colonial Forces
| awarded_for              = Twenty years service
| campaign         =
| status           = Discontinued in 1930
| description      =
| motto            =
| clasps           =
| post-nominals    =
| established      = 1899
| firstawarded      = 
| lastawarded       = 1931
| total_awarded            =
| total_awarded_posthumously       =
| total_recipients       =
| precedence_label = Order of Wear
| individual       =
| higher           = [[Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration]]
| same             =
| lower            = [[Naval Good Shooting Medal|Medal for Good Shooting (Naval)]]
| related          = [[Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies]]
| image2           = [[File:Ribbon - Volunteer Long Service Medal.png|x29px]]
| caption2         = Ribbon bar
}}

The '''Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal''' was instituted by [[Queen Victoria]] in 1899 as a military long service award for part-time members of all ranks in any of the organized military forces of the British Colonies, Dependencies and Protectorates throughout the [[British Empire]]. The medal gradually superseded the [[Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies]] in all these territories, with the exception of the [[Isle of Man]], [[Bermuda]] and the [[British Raj|Indian Empire]].<ref name="LGaz1899">{{London Gazette|issue=27085|page=3517|date=2 June 1899}}</ref><ref name="Colonial">[http://www.geocities.ws/militaf/mil94.htm South African Medal Website – Colonial Military Forces] (Accessed 6 May 2015)</ref><ref name="Medaille">{{cite web|url=http://www.medal-medaille.com/product_info.php?products_id=11175 |title=Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (Colonies), King George V issue, 1911–1930, miniature |publisher= Medal-Medaille |date=6 February 2006 |access-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

In 1930, the medal, along with the [[Volunteer Long Service Medal]], the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies, the [[Militia Long Service Medal]], the [[Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal]] and the [[Territorial Efficiency Medal]], were superseded by the [[Efficiency Medal]] in an effort to standardise recognition across the Empire.<ref name="LGaz1930">{{London Gazette |issue=33653 |page=6311 |date=17 October 1930}}</ref>

==Origin==
The [[Volunteer Long Service Medal]] was instituted in 1894 as an award for long service by other ranks in the part-time Volunteer Force of the United Kingdom. In 1896, the grant of this medal was extended by Queen Victoria to members of Volunteer Forces throughout the British Empire and a separate new medal was instituted, the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies.<ref name="Mayo495">{{cite book|last=Mayo|first=John Horsley|title=Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Vol. II, 1897 (No. 224. Volunteer Long Service, 1894.)|url=https://archive.org/stream/medalsdecoration02mayouoft#page/494/mode/2up|year=1897|publisher=A. Constable|page=495|location=London}}</ref><ref name="Mayo499">{{cite book|last=Mayo|first=John Horsley|title=Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Vol. II, 1897 (No. 225. Volunteer Long Service Medal for Indian and Colonial Forces, 1896.)|url=https://archive.org/stream/medalsdecoration02mayouoft#page/498/mode/2up|year=1897|publisher=A. Constable|page=499|location=London}}</ref>

==Institution==
The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal was instituted by Queen Victoria's Royal Warrant of 18 May 1899. This medal could be awarded to part-time members of all ranks in recognition of long service in any of the organised military forces of the [[Canada|Dominion of Canada]], the [[Crown colony|Crown Colonies]] and the [[Protectorate#British protectorates|Protectorates]], whether designated as militia or volunteers or otherwise. The medal superseded the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies in all these territories, with the exception of the Isle of Man, Bermuda and the Indian Empire.<ref name="LGaz1899"/>

Adoption of the medal by the Colonies took place gradually. In the Colonies which would become the [[Union of South Africa]] in 1910, for example, it was adopted by the [[Colony of Natal]] in 1900, the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]] in 1901 and the [[Transvaal Colony]] in 1906. In Canada and New Zealand, the medal was authorised in 1902.<ref name="Colonial"/><ref name="Birkenhead">[http://www.birkenheadrsa.com/medals-details.php?MedalNumber=685 Birkenhead Returned Services Association - Military Medals - The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705180739/http://www.birkenheadrsa.com/medals-details.php?MedalNumber=685 |date=5 July 2015 }} (Accessed 6 July 2015)</ref><ref name="Canada">[http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/medals-decorations/service-medals/cafsm Veterans Affairs Canada - Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal] (Accessed 6 July 2015)</ref>

==Award criteria==
The medal could be awarded for twenty years of service as a part-time member of any rank in any of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces. Qualifying service could be had by serving in the forces of more than one Colony or Protectorate. Service in the Militia and Volunteer Forces of the United Kingdom was also reckonable, so long as at least half of all qualifying service had been rendered in the forces of the Dominion, Colonies or Protectorates. Service on the West Coast of Africa counted as double time. Service on the permanent staff was not reckonable.<ref name="LGaz1899"/><ref name="LGaz1923">{{London Gazette|issue=32792|page=801|date=2 February 1923}}</ref>

Officers holding the medal who were subsequently awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration were not required to surrender the medal, but were not permitted to wear it any more until such time as the full periods of service required for both decoration and medal were completed.<ref name="LGaz1923"/>

On 25 January 1923, the Royal Warrant was amended in respect of part-time members who had actually served, or accepted the obligation of serving, beyond the boundaries of the Dominions, Colonies, Dependencies or Protectorates during the [[World War I|First World War]]. Such service on the active list was reckoned two-fold as qualifying service towards the requisite twenty years, whether such service was in the Naval Forces, Military Forces or Air Forces.<ref name="LGaz1923"/>

==Order of wear==
In the order of wear prescribed by the British [[Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood]], the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal takes precedence after the [[Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration]] and before the [[Naval Good Shooting Medal|Medal for Good Shooting (Naval)]].<ref name="London Gazette">{{London Gazette|issue=56878|supp=y|page=3353|date=17 March 2003}}</ref>

===South Africa===
{{main|South African military decorations order of wear#Order of wear}}
With effect from 6 April 1952, when a new South African set of decorations and medals was instituted to replace the British awards used to date, the older British decorations and medals which were applicable to South Africa continued to be worn in the same order of precedence but, with the exception of the [[Victoria Cross]], took precedence after all South African decorations and medals awarded to South Africans on or after that date. Of the official British medals which were applicable to South Africans, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal takes precedence as shown.<ref name="London Gazette"/><ref name="Notice1982">Government Notice no. 1982 of 1 October 1954 - ''Order of Precedence of Orders, Decorations and Medals'', published in the Government Gazette of 1 October 1954.</ref><ref name="Gazette 27376">Republic of South Africa Government Gazette Vol. 477, no. 27376, Pretoria, 11 March 2005, {{OCLC|72827981}}</ref>

[[File:Ribbon - Volunteer Long Service Medal.png|x37px|Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration]] [[File:Ribbon - Volunteer Long Service Medal.png|x37px|Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal]] [[File:Ribbon - Efficiency Decoration (South Africa).png|x37px|Efficiency Decoration (South Africa)]]
* Preceded by the [[Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration]] (VD).
* Succeeded by the [[Efficiency Decoration (South Africa)]] (ED).

==Description==
[[File:Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal (Edward VII).jpg|thumb|King Edward VII version]]
[[File:Colonial_Auxiliary_Forces_Long_Service_Medal_-_George_V_version.jpg|thumb|King George V version]]
The medal was struck in silver and is a disk, {{convert|1.42|in|0|abbr=off}} in diameter, with a raised rim on each side. It is suspended from a plain, straight, swivelling silver bar, affixed to the medal by means of a single-toe claw and a pin through the upper edge of the medal, with double scroll claw supports on the rim.<ref name="Birkenhead"/><ref name="Canada"/><ref name="Australia">[http://artilleryhistory.org/gunners_past_and_present/awards/colonial_auxiliary_forces_long_service_medal/colonial_auxiliary_forces_long_service_medal.html Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company - Defence Honours and Awards - Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal] (Accessed 5 July 2015)</ref>

;Obverse
The obverse of the medal depicts the reigning monarch. Three obverse versions of the medal were struck.<ref name="Birkenhead"/><ref name="Canada"/>
* The original Queen Victoria version of 1899 has a diademed and veiled (widowed) effigy of the Queen, facing left, circumscribed with the legend "VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX". The initials "TB" of medallist [[Sir Thomas Brock]] [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath|KCB]] [[Royal Academy of Arts|RA]] are in the field below the bust.<ref name="Birkenhead"/><ref name="Canada"/><ref name="Australia"/>
* The [[Edward VII|King Edward VII]] version, introduced after his succession to the throne in 1901, displays his effigy in Field Marshal's uniform, facing left, circumscribed with the legend "EDWARDVS VII REX IMPERATOR".  The initials "DES" of medallist [[George William de Saulles]] are in the field below the bust.<ref name="Canada"/><ref name="MuseumVictoria">[https://web.archive.org/web/20130719204633/http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1205817/medal-colonial-auxiliary-forces-long-service-medal-king-edward-vii-australia-1902-1910 Museum Victoria - Medal - Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, King Edward VII, Australia, 1902-1910] (Accessed 6 July 2015)</ref>
* The [[George V|King George V]] version, introduced after his succession to the throne in 1910, shows the King in Field Marshal's uniform, facing left, and is circumscribed with the legend "GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP:". The initials "BM" of Australian medallist Sir [[Edgar Bertram Mackennal]] [[Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]] appear under the shoulder of the bust.<ref name="Canada"/>

;Reverse
The reverse shows 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 to the right.<ref name="Birkenhead"/><ref name="Canada"/><ref name="Australia"/><ref name="MuseumVictoria"/>

;Ribbon
The ribbon is plain dark green and {{convert|1+1/4|in|0|abbr=off}} wide. The same ribbon was used for the Volunteer Long Service Medal, the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers Decoration.<ref name="Birkenhead"/><ref name="Canada"/>

==Discontinuation==
The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, along with the Volunteer Long Service Medal, the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies, the Militia Long Service Medal, the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and the Territorial Efficiency Medal, were superseded by the Efficiency Medal on 23 September 1930 in an effort to standardise recognition for part-time service across the Empire by the award of one medal.<ref name="LGaz1930"/>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
{{Efficiency and long service decorations and medals}}
{{South African military decorations and medals}}
{{Thomas Brock}}

[[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]]
[[Category:New Zealand Meritorious & Long Service Awards]]
[[Category:Military decorations and medals of South Africa]]
[[Category:Military decorations and medals of South Africa pre-1952]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1899]]
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