Royal Naval Auxiliary Service Long Service Medal SERVICE LONG SERVICE". Recipient's names are impressed upon the edge of the medal in capital letters. The medal is suspended from a dark blue ribbon with a narrow central green stripe. Near the edges are narrow green stripes bordered in white. Royal Naval Auxiliary Service Long Service Medal The Royal Naval Auxiliary Service Long Service Medal was an award of the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service. The medal recognized 12 years of service, with bars being awarded for 12 subsequent years of service. The medal is 36 mm in diameter and made of cupro-nickel. The obverse depicts the crowned effigy of
Victoria Cross for Australia Victoria Cross. Corporal Baird had been awarded the Medal for Gallantry in 2007 and was killed in Afghanistan in 2013. On 3 April 2001, Senator Chris Schacht, then a member of the Australian Senate, gave notice that on the next day of sitting he would introduce the "Award of Victoria Cross for Australia Bill 2001" to award the Victoria Cross for Australia to certain persons. The next sitting day, 4 April 2001, Senator Schacht introduced the bill for three members of the Australian forces to be awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia. The bill was read a first time and