The Royal Warrant for the Accumulated Campaign Service Medal specifies that ... the medal shall be circular in form and be silver, that it shall bear on the obverse the Crowned Effigy of the Sovereign and on the reverse the description "FOR ACCUMULATED CAMPAIGN SERVICE" set within a four part ribbon surrounded by a branch of oak leaves with laurel and olive leaves woven through the motto ribbon.

[2] The Accumulated Campaign Service Medal is hallmarked on the rim to the right of the suspension fixing.

[3] Criteria for part-time members of the Royal Irish Regiment were similar but with 1,000 days replacing 36 months.

[4] Qualification for the Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 2011 was also restricted to only those serving from 1 January 2008.

The MOD initiated a review of the qualifying criteria and the results were made public on 30 July 2021.