General Service Medal (1962)

General Service Medal (1962)
Obverse (left), reverse (right)
Awarded by United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	British and Commonwealth forces.
Awarded for	Campaign service.
Campaign(s)	Minor campaigns 1962–2007
Description	Silver disk, 36 mm diameter.
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
Statistics
Established	6 October 1964
Related	Naval General Service Medal (1915), General Service Medal (1918), General Service Medal (2008)
Ribbon Ribbon with bronze oak leaf for Mentioned in Dispatches

The General Service Medal (1962 GSM, also sometimes referred to as the Campaign Service Medal), was introduced in 1962 to combine 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 . In 2015 the General Service Medal (2008) was introduced.

Awarded to personnel involved in an arduous campaign or well fought operation when servicemen would on occasion have to shoot at the opposition, other than purely for self-defence.

GSMs have the name, rank, service number and regiment or corps of the awardee annotated on the rim of the medal.

14 Clasps were awarded to the 1962 GSM. The maximum awarded to any one individual appears to have been six.

However, the qualifying period does not include jungle training prior to deployment to combat operations even if the training took place in Borneo. Personnel based on Singapore from 8 August 1965 are also not qualified as Singapore, which had been a part of the Federation of Malaysia, became independent.