8th Army:-

It was decreed that the maximum number of stars that could be earned by any one man or woman was five, and those who qualified formore received a clasp to be worn on the ribbon of appropriate campaign star.Only one bar to a ribbon was allowed.

Therefore this clasp can be worn on:-

Africa star.

To qualify for the clasp 8th Army personel are required to have served between 23rd October 1942 & 12th May 1943,

(a) On the posted strength of, or attatched for duty to,a formation or unit which appears on the Order of Battle of the Eighth Army; or

(b) as a reinforcement in a forward camp in the Eighth Army area; or

(c) with the Eighth army on duty from units or formations not appering on the Order of battle, as guards and escorts on convoys,or on the staffs of hospital trains which ran to the railhead.