The Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) is awarded for distinguished service by a member of an Australian ambulance service. The ASM was introduced in 1999.
Awards are made by the Governor-General, on the nomination of the responsible minister in each state and territory. The total number of awards made each year must not exceed the following quota:
* one award for each 1,000, or part of 1,000, full-time permanent members of a state's ambulance service
* one award for each 5,000, or part of 5,000, part-time, volunteer or auxiliary members in a state
* one award for ambulance members in each of the
ACT,
NT and the combined
External Territories.
Recipients of the Ambulance Service Medal are entitled to use the post-nominal letters "ASM".
Description
* The Ambulance Service Medal is circular and of silver and bronze tones. The front of the medal displays the
Federation Star
The Commonwealth Star (also known as the Federation Star, the Seven Point Star, or the Star of Federation) is a seven-pointed star symbolising the Federation of Australia which came into force on 1 January 1901.
Six points of the Star represen ...
superimposed on a modified
Maltese cross
The Maltese cross is a cross symbol, consisting of four " V" or arrowhead shaped concave quadrilaterals converging at a central vertex at right angles, two tips pointing outward symmetrically.
It is a heraldic cross variant which developed f ...
, which is representative of ambulance services. This rests on a bed of
Australian wattle. The Federation Star is surrounded by twenty-four balls signifying the twenty-four hours per day the Ambulance Service is available to the community.
* The back of the medal bears the inscription ‘For Distinguished Service’.
* The 32 millimetre-wide ribbon features a chevron or V-shaped pattern. The angles are derived from the open end of the arm of the cross. The chevrons are in alternate red, white, red, silver-grey.
See also
Australian Honours Order of Precedence
The Governor-General of Australia has, at irregular intervals, notified for general information the positioning of the wearing of Australian Orders, Decorations and Medals in the ''Commonwealth of Australia Gazette''. The ''Order of Wearing Aust ...
References
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Civil awards and decorations of Australia
1999 establishments in Australia
Awards established in 1999
Long and Meritorious Service Medals of Britain and the Commonwealth