
The Arctic Medal is available exclusively to all allied veterans of the Arctic Campaign in WW II or their next of kin. This includes Royal Navy Personnel who served on the convoys. Those whose served as D.E.M.S. gun crews on merchant ships. Many merchant seamen; the army personnel who were stationed on the remote land bases and who gave an essential back-up and the airmen whose long flying hours afforded the vital air protection required for the safety and success of many convoys.