Please Identify Medal and Year

[ogohogoh]

Hello - this is my wife's uncle Benjamin John Hollier b.1897 (Lambeth) proudly wearing a medal.  We know he served in France during WW1, but know very little of his early life.

We would be grateful if someone could identify the medal and take a guess at Benjamin's age in this photo.  We think he looks about 23 Circa 1920.

Thanks, Fred

[gortonboy]

there is a medal card for a benjamin j hollier....6th london regiment and army pay corp
says he was awarded the british medal,victory medal and star. But that is not any of those,,i dont think,,,,one of the military experts will confirm 

[gortonboy]

he also has a pension record on Ancestry,,,,,,he was discharged due to poor eyesight,,,the record is mostly about this,,,the treatment for his condition being the provision of glasses.

[apwright]

The "medal" on his lapel looks very like the cap badge of the 6th (City of London Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, so a souvenir of his service rather than a medal.

Adrian

[gortonboy]

i think that the medal is actually his london regiment cap badge.

[km1971]

The centre could have been removed and that is a pin we can see - http://www.fovantbadges.com/bad_sa.htm

Ken

[ScouseBoy]

It looks to me similar to the emblem which St Johns Ambulance  Brigade use as their badge.

[scrimnet]

The "medal" on his lapel looks very like the cap badge of the 6th (City of London Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, so a souvenir of his service rather than a medal.

Adrian

Spot on...

The centre could have been removed and that is a pin we can see - http://www.fovantbadges.com/bad_sa.htm

Ken

Some of the centres were voided (apart from the bugle horn!), and the slider could easily be put through the button hole...

I reckon the "pin" is the dangly cords bit of the bugle horn...

[scrimnet]

It looks to me similar to the emblem which St Johns Ambulance  Brigade use as their badge.

It is similar, as both use the "cross putte" or Maltese Cross...This has battle honours on and a crown though!