PRK02 - 7th January Decoration
PRK03 - National Defense Decoration
PRK05 - Issarak Combattants Decoration
PRK06/7 - Labor Decoration & Medal
PRK08/9 - Friendship Decoration & Medal
PRK8/9 | THE FRIENDSHIP DECORATION and THE FRIENDSHIP MEDAL | |||
single class and a medal – established 1982 | ||||
For: | foreigners and expatriate associations who assisted Cambodia | |||
Design: | gilt breast badge, 40mm across, with suspension ribbon | |||
Obverse: | an eight pointed gold star, with five smooth rays constituting each point and one small one in each angle, the light blue central disk having a white pair of shaking hands below, a white dove above that, a gold five towered Angkor Wat above that, a sheaf of grain on either side, and a gold Khmer inscription on a red background above and below saying respectively "Decoration, Friendship."; | |||
Reverse: | plain | |||
Ribbon: | 27mm; yellow 2mm, red 1mm, yellow 2mm, red 5mm, green 7mm red 5mm, yellow 2mm, red 1mm, yellow 2mm (with several variations); folded pentagonally |
The badge of the medal is 36mm across, with the eight points of three equal rays, and a smaller disk with the Khmer inscription above “Medal” and below “Friendship” without a red background.
The decoration is common, the medal less so.
PRK8 The Friendship Decoration |
PRK9 The Friendship Medal |
PRK9 The Friendship Medal with Ribbon Bar
(maybe this is just a concoction)
Various Ribbon weaves have been observed:
large weave |
medium weave |
small weave |