The Civil Defence Medal (CDM) was a long service award in the United Kingdom and associated territories, instituted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in March 1961 and awarded for 15 years continuous sparetime voluntary service in a variety of different organizations including the Auxiliary Fire Service, National Hospital Service Reserve, United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and the Civil Defence Corps.
American Civil War | United States Marine Corps | Spanish Civil War | United States Army Corps of Engineers | English Civil War | International Civil Aviation Organization | Union (American Civil War) | Peace Corps | Royal Flying Corps | American Civil Liberties Union | United States Army Air Corps | Russian Civil War | Royal Army Medical Corps | Civilian Conservation Corps | American Society of Civil Engineers | National Defence College, India | civil engineering | Chinese Civil War | Civil Air Patrol | Sri Lankan Civil War | Army Air Corps | National Defence Academy | Civil Engineering | Corps of Engineers | Australian Defence Force | Reserve Officers' Training Corps | Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island | Commandant of the Marine Corps | Royal Army Service Corps | Ulster Defence Association |
The college known as The Hawkhills is located at Easingwold near York in England, and was a private country house, later a police college and Civil Defence Corps training facility before becoming the emergency planning college for the Home Office's F6 Emergency Planning Division.