# Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal

The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (French: Médaille du couronnement de la Reine Élizabeth II) is a commemorative medal instituted to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953.

## Award

This medal was awarded as a personal souvenir from the Queen to members of the Royal Family and selected officers of state, members of the Royal Household, government officials, mayors, public servants, local government officials, members of the navy, army, air force and police in Britain, her colonies and Dominions. It was also awarded to members of the Mount Everest expedition, two of whom reached the summit four days before the coronation. It was struck at the Royal Mint and issued immediately after the coronation.
For Coronation and Jubilee medals, the practice up until 1977 was that the authorities in the United Kingdom decided on a total number to be produced, then allocated a proportion to each of the Commonwealth countries and Crown dependencies and other possessions of the Crown. The award of the medals was then at the discretion of the government of each territory, which was left free to decide who was to be awarded a medal and why.
A total of 129,051 medals were awarded, including:
* 11,561 to Australians.
* 19,000 to Canadians.

## Description

The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal is a silver disk, 1.25 inches in diameter. The obverse features a crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, facing right, in a high-collared ermine cloak and wearing a Tudor Crown along with the collar of the Garter and Badge of the Bath. There is no raised rim and no legend.
The reverse shows the Royal Cypher EIIR surmounted by a large crown. The legend around the edge reads "QUEEN ELIZABETH II CROWNED 2nd JUNE 1953". The medal was designed by Cecil Thomas.
The dark red ribbon is 1.25 inches (32 mm) wide, with 5⁄64 inch (2 mm) wide white edges and two narrow dark blue stripes in the centre, each 5⁄64 inch (2 mm) wide and 1⁄16 inch (1.6 mm) apart.
Ladies who were awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal can wear it on their left shoulder with the ribbon tied in the form of a bow.
The medals were issued unnamed, except for the 37 issued to the British Mount Everest Expedition. These were engraved "MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION" on the rim.

## Precedence by country

Some orders of precedence are as follows:
| Country | Preceding | Following |
| Australia Order of precedence | King George VI Coronation Medal | Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal |
| New Zealand Order of precedence | King George VI Coronation Medal | Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal |
| South Africa Order of precedence | Tshumelo Ikatelaho - General Service Medal | Independence Medal (Transkei) |
| Ceylon Order of precedence | 50th Anniversary Medals (Army) (Navy) (Air Force) | Ceylon Armed Services Long Service Medal |
| United Kingdom Order of precedence | King George VI Coronation Medal | Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal |

## Notable recipients
### Australia

* Charles Groves Wright Anderson
* Albert Borella
* George Brain
* Frank Bladin
* Claude Champion
* Claude Choules
* Daniel Clyne
* Irene Crespin
* George Currie
* Roden Cutler
* Phillip Davey
* Alexander Duncan
* Ruth Frith
* Victor Galway
* George Gosse
* Lilian Gresham
* John Patrick Hamilton
* Charles Lloyd Jones
* Winifred Kastner
* Bill Lamb
* John Leak
* Eleanor Manning
* Pattie Menzies
* F. Kenneth Milne
* Mellis Napier
* Ada Norris
* Doris Lyne Officer
* Ian Potter
* Reg Rattey
* James Rogers (Australian soldier)
* D. Bruce Ross
* Mary Stevenson
* Helen Alma Newton Turner
* Bryan Ward
* Eric Willis
* Naomi Wolinski
* James Park Woods
* Eric Woodward

### Brunei

* Pengiran Anak Mohamed Alam
* Ibrahim Mohammad Jahfar

### Ceylon

* Basil Henricus
* Bertram Heyn

### Nepal

* Tenzing Norgay

### New Zealand

The following list includes notable New Zealanders who received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal, and is not an exhaustive list of recipients.

#### A

* Hugh Acland
* Ernest Aderman
* Henry Ah Kew
* Robert Aitken
* Tofilau Eti Alesana
* Allen Alexander
* Ronald Algie
* Robin Allan
* Geoff Alley
* Annie Allum
* John Allum
* Claude Anaru
* Harry Anderson
* Bill Anderton
* John Andrew
* Leslie Andrew
* John Andrews
* Will Appleton
* Gilbert Archey
* Thomas Ashby
* Bernard Ashwin
* Alexander Astor

#### B

* Wiri Baker
* Doug Ball
* Harry Barker
* Bill Barnard
* Fred Barnard
* Jim Barnes
* Miles Barnett
* Bill Barrett
* Harold Barrowclough
* Cyril Bassett
* Eric Batchelor
* Ed Bate
* Ernest Bathurst
* Ken Baxter
* Clive Beadon
* C. E. Beeby
* Matt Benney
* Carl Berendsen
* Fred Betham
* Thyra Bethell
* William Blacklock
* Tom Bloodworth
* Denis Blundell
* Roger Blunt
* Bert Bockett
* William Bodkin
* George Bolt
* Charles Bowden
* Fred Bowerbank
* Michael Bowles
* Warwick Braithwaite
* Thomas Brash
* Cyprian Brereton
* William Bretton
* Bob Briggs
* William Bringans
* Walter Broadfoot
* Bill Brown
* Malcolm Burns
* Jim Burrows
* Peter Butler

#### C

* John Cairney
* Frank Callaghan
* Flora Cameron
* Dick Campbell
* Alan Candy
* Edward Caradus
* David Carnegie
* Harold Caro
* Clyde Carr
* Turi Carroll
* Ernest Caygill
* Charles Henry Chapman
* Johnny Checketts
* Hector Christie
* George Clifton
* George Clinkard
* Harry Combs
* Eric Compton
* Michael Connelly
* Phil Connolly
* Philip Cooke
* Bert Cooksley
* Ernest Corbett
* Frank Corner
* Joe Cotterill
* Charles Cotton
* Robert Coupland
* John Court
* James Crichton
* William Cunningham
* George Currie

#### D

* Clifford Dalton
* Joseph Darnand
* Arthur Davenport
* Alfred Davey
* Eliot Davis
* Ernest Davis
* George Davis-Goff
* Stanley Dean
* James Deas
* Helen Deem
* Reginald Delargey
* Rangitīaria Dennan
* Edwin Dixon
* Frederick Doidge
* Viva Donaldson
* Arthur Donnelly
* Percy Dowse
* Harry Dudfield
* Roger Duff
* Mason Durie

#### E

* James Elliott
* Keith Elliott
* Ned Ellison
* Sam Emery
* Mary Enright
* Pat Entrican
* Dean Eyre

#### F

* Robert Falla
* James Fletcher
* Flora Forde
* Wilfred Fortune
* Warren Freer
* Samuel Frickleton

#### G

* Victor Galway
* Rua Gardner
* Thomas Garland
* Archer Garside
* William Gentry
* Jack George
* Geoff Gerard
* Theodore Nisbet Gibbs
* Esmond Gibson
* Bill Gilbert
* Frank Gill
* William Gillespie
* Alexander Gillies
* Elizabeth Gilmer
* Ron Giorgi
* William Girling
* Fred Glasse
* Stan Goosman
* Edward Gordon
* Leon Götz
* John Grace
* John Gildroy Grant
* Elizabeth Gregory
* William Gregory
* Kenneth Gresson
* Richard Gross
* William Gummer

#### H

* Fred Hackett
* Arthur Langan Haddon
* Rongowhakaata Halbert
* Tristan Hegglun
* Edmund Hillary
* Tom Horton
* Clive Hulme

#### K

* Paddy Kearins

#### L

* Mary Gonzaga Leahy

#### M

* Korokī Mahuta
* Jack Marshall

#### N

* Edgar Neale
* Erima Northcroft

#### P

* Rusty Page

#### R

* Edith Rudd

#### S

* Percy Storkey

#### T

* Harold Tait
* Peter Tait
* Hepi Te Heuheu
* Blair Tennent
* David Thomson
* Percy Thomson
* Jim Thorn
* Edward Thorne
* Leonard Thornton
* Eruera Tirikatene
* Ernest Toop
* Geoffrey Tremaine
* Leonard Trent
* Tualaulelei Mauri
* Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole
* Harold Turbott
* George Turkington
* Fred Turley
* Charles Turner
* Patrick Twomey
* Arthur Tyndall

#### U

* Charles Upham

#### W

* Ron Wakelin
* Mark Wallace
* Robert Walls
* Fintan Patrick Walsh
* George Walsh
* John Walsh
* Bob Walton
* Joseph Ward
* Alwyn Warren
* Ellenor Watson
* James Wattie
* Jack Watts
* Clifton Webb
* John Weeks
* Stephen Weir
* George Weston
* Ronald Erle White
* William Whitlock
* Agnes, Lady Wigram
* Leonard Wild
* Lionel Wilkinson
* Gordon Wilson
* Ivon Wilson
* Joseph Vivian Wilson
* Stanley Wilson
* Frederick Wood
* George Wood
* Jack Wright
* Len Wright

### Pakistan

* Azim Daudpota
* Abrar Hussain
* Amir Gulistan Janjua
* Władysław Turowicz

### Samoa

* Tofilau Eti Alesana

### Tonga

* Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe
* Sālote Tupou III
* Fatafehi Tuʻipelehake