Medal for Long Service Medal for Long Service The Medal for Long Service (Polish: "Medal za Długoletnią Służbę") is a Polish decoration awarded in three classes (gold, silver and bronze) to members of the Polish Armed Forces and other uniformed services, and to civilians who have honorably completed 30, 20 or 10 years of service to the State. The medal was established by the Law of January 8, 1938. After the outbreak of the Second World War the conferment was suspended, and after the war the medal was eventually discontinued. In 1951, it was replaced by the Medal of the Armed Forces in the
Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery, Silver 4½ millimetres wide orange edges. Upon the accession to the British Throne of Queen Elizabeth II on 15 December 1952, the Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery, Silver was discontinued and replaced by the Union of South Africa Queen's Medal for Bravery, Silver. The Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery, Silver was awarded to altogether thirty-four individuals, of whom eighteen were military personnel. Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery, Silver The Union of South Africa King's Medal for Bravery, Silver is the lesser of two classes of a South African civil decoration for acts