Circular bronze medal with eyelet for ribbon suspension; the face with two towers and a wall, the sea beyond with a sailing ship face-on, a radiant rising sun above, crossed swords below, a five-pointed star to either side, circumscribed above ‘JOLO CAMPAIGN’; the reverse with the figure of justice, scales in her right hand, a radiant torch in her raised left hand, an island landscape below right, an armoured car below left, circumscribed ‘FOR SERVICE’ below; on original ribbon mounted for wear, the brooch bar with maker’s mark of El Oro, Quezon City, Philippines; with ribbon bar and enamel lapel pin, both mounted for wear; in original pasteboard box of issue with El Oro’s details on the inside of the lid, a few small losses of surface from the lid. The medal was instituted at the end of World War II to be awarded to those who liberated the volcanic island of Jolo situated in the south-west Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago, between Borneo and Mindanao in April 1945. The medal is hard to find.
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