General Service Medal (1962)

General Service Medal (1962)
Obverse (left), reverse (right)
Type	Campaign medal
Awarded for	Campaign service.
Description	Silver disk, 36 mm diameter.
Presented by	United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
Eligibility	British and Commonwealth forces.
Campaign(s)	Minor campaigns 1962–2007
Clasps	Cyprus 1963-64 Borneo Radfan South Arabia Malay Peninsula South Vietnam Northern Ireland Dhofar Lebanon Mine Clearance, Gulf of Suez Gulf Kuwait N. Iraq & S. Turkey Air Operations Iraq
Established	6 October 1964
Ribbon Ribbon with bronze oak leaf for a mention in dispatches
Related	Naval General Service Medal (1915), General Service Medal (1918), General Service Medal (2008)

The General Service Medal (1962 GSM, originally referred to as the Campaign Service Medal), is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom introduced in 1962 to replace both the General Service Medal (1918), as awarded to the Army and RAF, and the Naval General Service Medal (1915). The 1962 GSM was awarded until 2007, when it was replaced by the Operational Service Medal. In 2015 the General Service Medal (2008) was introduced.^[1]

The 1962 GSM was awarded for what were often arduous campaigns and well fought operations, evidenced by the casualties that were frequently sustained.