Army and RAF Officers serving aboard navel vessels were included from 1940

Subsequent awards of the Air Force Cross are denoted by a bar attached to the ribbon

including civilian medical practitioners

The bars which originally had the date of the acts in raised lettering were changed in 1916 to the standard laurelled bars

Bust of Charles Darwin FS Mount & Engrave Army and RAF Officers servingBust of Charles Darwin made in British Gypsum Plaster. As with all Famous Faces there are objects around the base. For this bust we have included the evolution of man, giant tortoise, iguanas, magnifying glass, notebooks and the HMS Beagle The etch around the base reads "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES" The Origin of Species was a publishing phenominen. Darwin outlined his evolutionary theory which challenged Church and establishment on the origin of life.