Brooch-like mounted badge, known as the Silver War Badge, with crowned royal monogram and inscription 'For King and Empire', as given to wounded or sick service personnel who were was discharged from British military service during the First World War, British, 1916-1919.

Known as the Silver War Badge, this was given to service personnel who were was discharged from British military service during the First World War. This included illness or wounds sustained. First given in 1916, but applied retrospectively to those from earlier in the conflict, the badge carries the words "For King and Empire Services Rendered.". Given to those discharged between 1914 and 1919, a total of 882,667 were eventually issued.

It would be worn when people returned to civilian life as a visible reminder of their service, in part to avoid accustaions of shirking what was seen as many as their patriotic duty to fight for the country.