 On medals awarded to Army officers, with the exception of the Royal Artillery, the name of the regiment or corps was omitted.The watered silk ribbon is 32 millimetres (1.25 in) wide, with a 3 millimetres wide royal blue band, a 2 millimetres wide black band and a 3 millimetres wide white band, repeated in reverse order and separated by a 16 millimetres wide orange band.The colours are not thought to have any particular symbolic significance.