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
Queen's Medal for Champion Shots of the New Zealand Naval Forces to those of the Naval Good Shooting Medal, instituted by King Edward VII in 1902 as an award for outstanding naval gunnery and discontinued in 1914. In 1966 the same medal design and ribbon were to be used again for the Queen's Medal for Champion Shots of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The Medal for the Best Shot in the British Army, Infantry, was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1869 and was awarded from 1870 to 1882 to the best shot of the annual Army shooting competition. In 1923 the medal was re-introduced by King George V and designated