Burma Star

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Burma Star
Date	1945
Branch of Service	British and Commonwealth forces
Campaign	Burma 1941-45
Ribbon	Three equal bands of dark blue, red, and dark blue. The dark blue stripes each have at their centres a stripe of bright orange
Metal	Bronze
Size	Height 44mm; max. width 38mm
Obverse Reverse Plain reverse Clasps Pacific

The Burma Star was a campaign medal of the British Commonwealth, awarded for service in World War II.

The medal was awarded for service in the Burma Campaign.

British uniform regulations stipulated that Pacific Star would not be awarded to a prior recipient of the Burma Star. Subsequent entitlement to the Pacific Star was denoted by the award of the Pacific clasp. In undress uniform, a silver rosette was worn on the medal ribbon to denote the award of this clasp.

The ribbon for this medal, along with those of the other Second World War campaign stars, is reputed to have been designed by King George VI. The broad dark blue stripes represent British forces, the red stripe Commonwealth forces, and the bright orange stripes represent the sun.

[edit] Clasps

• Pacific

Awarded to those who subsequently qualified for the Pacific Star.

[edit] Notes

[edit] Bibliography

• Mackay, J and Mussel, J (eds) - Medals Yearbook - 2006, (2005), Token Publishing.
• Joslin, Litherland, and Simpkin (eds), British Battles and Medals, (1988), Spink

[edit] External links

• Burma Star Association