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{{Infobox Military Award
|name=Delhi Durbar Medal, 1903
|image=[[File:Delhi Durbar Medal 1903 obverse.jpg|140px]] [[File: Delhi Durbar Medal 1903, reverse.jpg|140px]]
|caption=Obverse and reverse of 1903 Durbar Medal
|presenter=[[United Kingdom]] and [[British Raj]]
|type= Commemoration medal
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|awarded_for= Participation in Durbar, or broader service to the Indian Empire
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|established= 1903
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|total_awarded= 140 gold and 2,567 silver medals
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|image2=[[File:Delhi Durbar 1903 ribbon.jpg|100px]]
|caption2=Ribbon bar
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'''Delhi Durbar Medals''' were instituted by the [[British Raj|United Kingdom]] to commemorate the [[Delhi Durbar]] where the new [[Emperor of India]] was proclaimed, in 1903 for [[Edward VII]], and in [[Delhi Durbar Medal (1911)|1911]] for [[George V]].<ref name="McCreery2012">{{cite book|author=Christopher McCreery|title=Commemorative Medals of the Queen's Reign in Canada, 1952-2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tg1k4oJn8a4C&pg=PA32|year=2012|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-4597-0756-6|pages=32–}}</ref> On both occasions the medals were one and a half inches in diameter and were awarded in both gold and silver.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Howard N Cole.|title=Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals.|pp=24 and 37. Published J. B. Hayward & Son, London. 1977}}</ref> They were worn in date order alongside Coronation and Jubilee medals on the left chest, suspended from a ribbon one and a quarter inches wide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Order of wear: London Gazette: 22 April 1921, issue: 32300, page:3184.|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32300/page/3184}}</ref> These Royal commemorative medals were worn before campaign medals until November 1918,<ref name=Cole3>{{Cite book|author=Howard N Cole.|title=Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals.|pages=3-4. Published J. B. Hayward & Son, London. 1977}}</ref> after which the order of wear was changed, with them now worn after campaign medals and before long service awards.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32300|page=3184|date=22 April 1921}}</ref>

==Delhi Durbar Medal, 1903==
Obverse: The crowned head of the king facing right wearing an ermine robe of State, with the Collar of the Garter, and Badge of the Order of the Bath. Below the bust a branch of laurel with, around the rim, the legend, <small> EDWARD VII DELHI DURBAR 1903</small>.<br>Reverse: Inset within a floral wreath of roses - a [[Persian language|Persian]] inscription reading : ''By the Favour of the Lord of the Realm Edward, King, Emperor of India, 1901''.<ref>Awards of honour: the orders, decorations, medals, and awards of Great Britain & the Commonwealth, from Edward III to Elizabeth II. Arthur Jocelyn - 1956 pp:124,127</ref><ref>British orders and awards: a description of all orders, decorations, long service, coronation, jubilee and commemoration medals, together with historical details concerning knighthood, service ranks and similar information by Lawrence L. Gordon, Kaye & Ward, 1968 pp:78-79</ref><ref name="DorlingDorling1918">{{cite book|author1=Henry Taprell Dorling|title=Ribbons and Medals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tcsAQAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=G. Philip & Son|pages=19, 40–41}}</ref><br>The medal was awarded unnamed.<ref name=Cole3>{{Cite book|author=Howard N Cole.|title=Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals.|pages=3-4. Published J. B. Hayward & Son, London. 1977}}</ref>

140 gold medals were awarded to ruling chiefs and 2,567 in silver to other dignitaries, government officials and members of the armed forces,<ref>{{Cite book|author=Howard N Cole.|title=Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals.|page=25. Published J. B. Hayward & Son, London. 1977}}</ref> who were actually involved in the celebrations.<ref>{{Cite book|author=John W. Mussell, editor.|title=Medal Yearbook 2015.|page=289. Published Token Publishing Limited, Honiton, Devon. 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Delhi Durbar Medal (1911)]]
* [[Delhi Durbar]]
* [[British colonial India]]
* [[Empress of India Medal]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Commonwealth Coronation and Jubilee medals}}

[[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of India]]
[[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of British India]]
[[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:1911 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:1911 disestablishments in the United Kingdom]]

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