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The Air Efficiency Award, post-nominal letters AE for officers, was instituted in 1942. It could be awarded after ten years of meritorious service to part-time officers, airmen and airwomen in the Auxiliary and Volunteer Air Forces of the United Kingdom and the Territorial Air Forces and Air Force Reserves of the Dominions, the Indian Empire, Burma, the Colonies and Protectorates.〔(New Zealand Defence Force - New Zealand Long Service and Good Conduct Medals - The Air Efficiency Award ) (Accessed 2 August 2015)〕〔(WW2 Awards.com - Air Efficiency Award (AE) ) (Accessed 3 August 2015)〕 Award of the decoration was discontinued in the United Kingdom on 1 April 1999, when it was superseded by the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal. The decoration is still being awarded in New Zealand, but between 1951 and 1975 it was superseded by local awards in other Dominions.〔〔(Defence and Armed Forces - Guidance - Medals: campaigns, descriptions and eligibility - Volunteer Reserves Service Medal ) (Accessed 3 August 2015)〕 * In Canada, the Air Efficiency Award was superseded by the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1951.〔 (Accessed 26 May 2015)〕 * In South Africa, it was superseded by the John Chard Medal in 1952.〔(South African Medal Website - SA Defence Force : 1952-1975 ) (Accessed 30 April 2015)〕 * In Australia, it was superseded by the National Medal in 1975.〔(Medals of Service - Air Efficiency Award Miniature ) (Accessed 2 August 2015)〕 ==Institution== The Air Efficiency Award was instituted by Royal Warrant on 17 August 1942 as a long service award for part-time Auxiliary and Volunteer Air Force officers, airmen and airwomen in the United Kingdom, the Indian Empire, Burma, the British Colonies and Protectorates and those British Dominions whose governments desired to make use of the award. A clasp to the Award was subsequently instituted.〔〔(New Zealand Defence Force - The Air Efficiency Award Royal Warrant - Amendment dated 12 April 1951 ) (Accessed 2 August 2015)〕 Since, at the time, the Air Efficiency Award was unique, being a decoration that could be conferred on officers and other ranks alike in recognition of the unique relationship between the officers and men of an aircraft crew, recipients were initially not granted the right to use post-nominal letters. The use of the post-nominal letters "AE" was only approved at some date between 27 October 1964 and 28 October 1982, and only in respect of officer recipients.〔(TheyWorkForYou - Air Efficiency Award - Oral Answers to Questions - Royal Air Force - In the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14th October 1942 ) (Accessed 3 August 2015)〕〔(''The London Gazette'': no. 43474. p. 9123. 27 October 1964 ) (Accessed on 3 August 2015)〕〔(''The London Gazette'': no. 49522. pp. 14201-14202. 28 October 1983 ) (Accessed on 3 August 2015)〕 Several Dominions adopted the Air Efficiency Award. * In Australia, approximately 400 Air Efficiency Awards were made between 1942 and 1975.〔 * In Canada, the Air Efficiency Award was adopted in 1942 and, in respect of part-time officers, airmen and airwomen of the Royal Canadian Air Force Auxiliary and the Auxiliary Active Air Force Reserve, replaced the Efficiency Decoration and Efficiency Medal. It was originally planned that the Canadian version of the medal would have a bar inscribed "CANADA" on the suspension, but this never materialised and the regular British version was awarded to Canadians.〔〔(National Defence and the Canadian Forces - Obsolete Long Service Awards - Royal Canadian Air Force Auxiliary and Auxiliary Active Air Force ) (Accessed on 3 August 2015)〕〔(Veterans Affairs Canada - Air Efficiency Award ) (Accessed 3 August 2015)〕 * New Zealand adopted the Air Efficiency Award in 1942 and still awards it.〔 * South Africa adopted it and, in 1950, intended to introduce a bilingual version, with a scroll bar similar to that of the Efficiency Medal (South Africa) above the suspender and the inscriptions "AIR EFFICIENCY AWARD" and "TOEKENNING VIR BEKWAAMHEID (LUGMAG)" on the reverse. This version also never materialised since, on 6 April 1952, a set of South African decorations and medals were instituted to replace all the British awards hitherto used.〔〔(''Profile of a Research Project: The Medal Publications of the South African National Museum of Military History''. Dr Stanley Monick, curator of medals and numismatics of the South African National Museum of Military History (c. 1991). pp. 36-37 ) (Accessed 2 August 2015)〕〔(South African Medal Website - Union Defence Forces (1939-52) ) (Accessed 2 August 2015)〕 The first conferments of the Air Efficiency Award were announced in the press on 25 December 1942.〔(Trove Digitised newspapers and more - Air Efficiency Award - The First Recipients ) (Accessed 3 August 2015)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air Efficiency Award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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