Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal | |
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![]() Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals: Canada (left), Caribbean realms (centre), and United Kingdom and Commonwealth (right) | |
Type | Medal |
Awarded for | Having made an honourable service in military, police, prison, and emergency forces, or for outstanding achievement or public service |
Presented by | The monarch of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United Kingdom |
Status | No longer awarded |
Total | 10 (Australia)[1] 60,000 (Canada)[2] 3 (New Zealand)[3] 450,000 (United Kingdom)[4] 5,898 (Jamaica)[5]
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![]() ![]() ![]() Ribbons of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (above: Canadian and British; middle: Caribbean realms; bottom: Papua New Guinea) | |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | Dependent on state |
Next (lower) | Dependent on state |
The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (French: Médaille du jubilé de diamant de la reine Elizabeth II[6]) or The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2012 to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession in 1952. There are four versions of the medal: one issued by the United Kingdom, another by Canada, the third for the Caribbean realms of Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the fourth issued by Papua New Guinea. The ribbons used with the Canadian and British versions of the medal are the same, while the ribbon of the Caribbean and the Papua New Guinean medal differ slightly. The different iterations of the medal were presented to tens of thousands of recipients throughout the Commonwealth realms in the jubilee year.