Awarded to Union service personnel who served at home (South African Forces) or abroad during the Second World War for at least 30 Days

Bars are authorised for additional acts which would have resulted in the award of the cross

Entitlement will be acquired by those forces under NATO command or control whilst in the Joint Operational Area (JOA)

Instituted in 2015 in recognition of service by civilian and military personnel involved in the response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa

Since 1937 the cross has had the year of award engraved - usually on the bottom arm but examples do exist engraved in the centre

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