East Timor Medal

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East Timor Medal
Obverse (top left) and reverse (top right) of the medal. Ribbon: 32mm, broad green central stripe flanked by narrow red, wider black, and white stripes towards the edges.
Awarded by New Zealand
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	New Zealand forces and civilian personnel.
Awarded for	Campaign service.
Campaign	East Timor.
Description	Silvered alloy disk, 36mm diameter.
Clasps	East Timor
Statistics
Established	25 April 2000
Total awarded	5,000

The East Timor Medal is a New Zealand campaign medal, authorised in 2000, for award to New Zealanders who have served

This campaign medal is unique in that it has been awarded to civilians from more than a dozen New Zealand government, philanthropic, or commercial organisations. These organisations have included the New Zealand Red Cross, Oxfam, Department of Corrections, New Zealand Customs Service, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Quarantine Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Qualifications Authority, the International Olympic Committee, Airways Consulting Ltd, Vincent Aviation, and Radiola Corporation Ltd, as well as the New Zealand Defence Force. The award of the East Timor Medal to these New Zealand civilians recognises their valuable participation in New Zealand's efforts to protect and assist the East Timorese people, and in the reconstruction of East Timor.

[edit] Clasps

East Timor

31 October - 22 December 1956. Awarded to members of the Royal New Zealand Navy who served for 1 day or more in ships engaged in operations off the Egyptian coast between these dates and who did not qualify for the award of the Naval General Service Medal (1915) with the clasp Near East.^[1]