DCHP-3

Spam medal

Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, issued to all persons who volunteered for service in World War II, so called after a kind of processed pork that figured prominently in the diet of soldiers in the field.

Quotations

1959
As all of us overseas at the time were volunteers, it meant that everybody wore one and so, in patronizing fashion, we tagged it the Spam Medal.