Queen's Fire Service Medal

• The Queen’s Fire Service medal for Gallantry (awarded posthumously) was awarded for acts of exceptional courage and skill at the cost of their lives.
• The Queen’s Fires Service medal for distinguished Service was awarded for the exhibition of conspicuous devotion to duty.

Criteria

Instituted on 19 May 1954 by Queen Elizabeth II, for issue to members of recognised fire services in Britain and Commonwealth countries. Awarded for ‘acts of exceptional courage and skill at the cost of their lives’ or for the ‘exhibition of conspicuous devotion to duty’.

Recipients are entitled to use the post-nominal QFSM after their name. Awards for gallantry essentially on a posthumous basis.This Medal replaced the King’s Police and Fire Service Medal and was in turn replaced in Australian honours with the Australian Fire Service Medal in 1989. The last award of the QFSM to an Australian was in 1989. Between 1954 and 1989, 98 QFSMs were awarded.

Design

• The medal is silver and 36 millimetres in diameter, with the obverse having the profile of Queen Elizabeth II.
• The medal's reverse is a standing figure with a sword and shield, with an inscription of "For Gallantry" or "For Distinguished Fire Service" around the face's side.
• The ribbon is of red with three yellow stripes. The Queen's Fire Service Medal for Gallantry has a single thin blue stripe running through the centre of each yellow stripe.

Nominations  - no longer available. Replaced by Australian Fire Service Medal

Recipients