The Sports Medal is normally awarded to recognise long service or to mark unique or outstanding contribution

a soldiers helmet

awarded for service in WW2

The medal is suspended from its distinctive yellow ribbon

Spitfire Skirmish 500pc Jigsaw Puzzle Service_Royal Air Force The Sports Medal is normallyIt's 1940 and the Battle of Britain is full steam ahead as the Spitfire and Messerschmitt tussle above the Thames. Flying the Spitfire is the renowned RAF officer Stapme Stapleton, the pilot who famously almost hit Tower Bridge as he pulled away from the skirmish depicted in this scene. Stapme later went on to shoot the single German pilot who escaped from an Allied prisoner of war camp, which was later depicted in the classic 1957 film, One That Got