New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Non-Warlike)

New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Non-Warlike)
Obverse (top left) and reverse (top right) of the medal. Ribbon: 32mm, dark blue with a central white stripe flanked by two red stripes.
Awarded by New Zealand
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	New Zealand forces
Awarded for	Campaign service
Campaign	Non-warlike operations 1954–
Description	Bronze disk, 38mm diameter
Clasps	Korea 1954–57 Thailand Sinai Indian Ocean Peshawar Iraq Somalia Mozambique Cambodia Rwanda Arabian Gulf Bougainville Korea 1958–2000
Statistics
Established	7 May 1992

The New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Non-Warlike) (NZGSM 1992) is a New Zealand campaign medal, authorised in 1992, for award to New Zealanders who have served in peacekeeping operations for which no separate UN medal was issued.

Each operation covered by the medal was represented by a clasp on the ribbon; twelve clasps have been issued to date, covering operations from 1954 to the present. The medal is never issued without a clasp.^[1]

The NZGSM 1992 was issued in two varieties – one for warlike service, and another for non-warlike service. Non-warlike operations were commemorated by this medal, operational deployments were commemorated by the NZGSM 1992 (Warlike) in silver.

This medal was replaced in 2002 by the New Zealand General Service Medal 2002 – all operations commencing on after 1 January 2000 will be recognised by awards of this new medal. However the NZGSM 1992 will continue to be issued with the clasp Sinai for so long as that deployment continues, all other operations recognised by this medal have now ceased.

Clasps

Korea 1954–57^[2]
Thailand^[3]
Sinai^[4]
Indian Ocean^[5]
Peshawar^[6]
Iraq^[7]
Somalia^[8]
Mozambique^[9]
Cambodia^[10]
Rwanda^[11]
Arabian Gulf^[12]
Bougainville^[13]
Korea 1958–2000^[14]

Notes

Bibliography

Mackay, J and Mussel, J (eds) – Medals Yearbook – 2005, (2004), Token Publishing.

External links

New Zealand campaign medals

19th century	New Zealand Medal

Second Boer War	Queen's South Africa Medal • King's South Africa Medal

World War One	1914–15 Star • British War Medal • Victory Medal Mercantile Marine War Medal •

World War Two	1939–1945 Star • Atlantic Star • Arctic Star • Air Crew Europe Star • Africa Star • Pacific Star • Burma Star • Italy Star • France and Germany Star • Defence Medal • War Medal • New Zealand War Service Medal (1939–45)

General Service	Naval General Service Medal (1915–62) • General Service Medal (1918–62) • General Service Medal (1962–2003) • New Zealand Operational Service Medal (1945–present)

Post-World War II	New Zealand Service Medal 1946–1949 (1946–49) • Korea Medal (1950–53) • Vietnam Medal (1964–73) • Rhodesia Medal (1979-1980) • New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Warlike) (1956–1991) • New Zealand General Service Medal 1992 (Non-Warlike) (1954–present) • East Timor Medal (1999–2006)

21st century	NZGSM 2002 (Solomon Islands)(2000–2013) • NZGSM 2002 (Afghanistan) – Primary Operations Area (2001–present) • NZGSM 2002 (Afghanistan) – Secondary Operations Area (2001–present) • NZGSM 2002 (Iraq 2003) (2003–present) • NZGSM 2002 (Timor-Leste) (2006–2012) • NZGSM 2002 (Korea) (2001–present) NZGSM 2002 (Counter-Piracy) (2009–present)

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