Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal

• Name — Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal • Presenter — the Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India • Country — United Kingdom • Type — Military long service medal • Eligibility — All ranks of part-time Colonial Forces • Awarded For — Twenty years service • Status — Discontinued in 1930 • Established — 1899 • Lastawarded — 1931 • Precedence Label — Order of Wear • Higher — Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration • Lower — Medal for Good Shooting (Naval) • Related — Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies • Image2 — * Illustration — x29px • Caption2 — Ribbon bar

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.

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 Dominion of Canada, the Crown Colonies and the 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 The medal superseded the Volunteer Long Service Medal for India and the Colonies in all these territories, with the exception of the Isle of Man, Bermuda and the Indian Empire. 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 of Good Hope in 1901 and the Transvaal Colony in 1906. In Canada and New Zealand, the medal was authorised in 1902.

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 Medal for Good Shooting (Naval).

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. • Illustration — Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration • Illustration — Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal • Illustration — Efficiency Decoration (South Africa) • Preceded by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (VD). • Succeeded by the Efficiency Decoration (South Africa) (ED).

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.