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8 Aug 2021: Other less successful engagements between the same armies arose at Inkermann in November 1854, and shortly before at the Battle of Balaklava, in which a Russian attempt to lift the siege ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the defenders there, and finally to have fought against Botha's 5,000 at Bergendal. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: all the piece has suffered somewhat at the hands of the Royal Mint. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased this one at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: point. Reverse, inscription. Kimberley Star, 1900 (Second Boer War). During the 1830s and 1840s several Dutch republics had been established outside the British Cape Colony in South Africa, among which were ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: George Cade, 1862. Obverse, a collection of war trophies with the Company arms on a shield at the centre. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: An early allied success was the defeat at Alma in 1854 of a larger Russian army that had been sent to oppose the initial allied landings. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, a cannon and mortar left and right before four standards of Crimean Allies, French flag to the front. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: J. Harvey, 1880. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, a lion stooping to drink before a mimosa bush; in the exergue a Zulu shield on four crossed assegais. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Initially the British feared imminent defeat, as they were outnumbered and undersupplied, but the Sikhs did not press home their advantage before the British managed to reinforce their position, whereafter they ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is not impossible that the unnamed example of that piece in the Watson Collection also belonged to Harris. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In 1896 however, Britain, alleging Ashanti cannibalism and human sacrifice, and under the pretext of recovering a debt that the previous ruler had incurred to the British twenty years before, sent ... It is unnamed, and the recipient therefore unknown.

8 Aug 2021: The Imperial advance continued in this unbalanced way, including a bitter close engagement at Driefontein on 10 March 1900, whose site has only recently been reinvestigated. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This example bears no name, and its recipient is unknown. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before

8 Aug 2021: Indian Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1901-1910. At King Edward VII's succession to Queen Victoria in 1901, most of the service medals then on issue were renewed with ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, a lion stooping to drink before a mimosa bush; in the exergue a Zulu shield on four crossed assegais. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Several serious defeats of Egyptian forces in 1884 by his forces led to a concerted British campaign in defence of Egyptian claims, but but despite a victory at El-Teb and ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The third medal bears no inscription at all. The group is joined by stitching at the top of the ribbons. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: The medal was acquired by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was awarded, as this suggests, to Company Sepoys (Indian troops); European combatants had to wait until corresponding bars were awarded to the Military and Naval General Service Medals some ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point

8 Aug 2021: H. in the exergue. Reverse, an oval shield bearing three stars and crescents, before an array of crossed rifles, cannons and standards. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: H. in the exergue. Reverse, an oval shield bearing three stars and crescents, before an array of crossed rifles, cannons and standards. ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Afghan interference in this conflict led the British to negotiate the emplacement of a garrison at Chitral in 1895 to safeguard their position. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Baltic Medal, 1856. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, Britannia seated with a trident, a cannon at her feet, before two distant fortresses. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The phrase New Zealand Wars covers a variety of affrays, whose common factors were relatively few beyond that all, at some level, involved government forces suppressing risings by the indigenous Maori ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: v. The group is mounted on a brass bar slid between the ribbons, with a pin at the back across all three ribbons to hold them in place. ... Mott, of the 1st Battalion Border Regiment. Lester Watson purchased the group from the London dealers Baldwin at

8 Aug 2021: An expedition sent against them in 1877-1878 engaged their forces briefly at Jowaki and thereafter destroyed several villages by way of punishment'. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The slack was taken up by men of the Militia who volunteered for service abroad, and who in some cases were sent to supply these garrisons with manpower while their regular ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is one of three medals that were awarded to him that are now in the Watson Collection; the others precede and follow this one. ... Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before 1928; they had all previously

8 Aug 2021: The medal was made in small numbers in India but the bulk of the issue was done at the Soho mint in Birmingham, and this silver example came from there. ... Lester Watson purchased this example from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Charles Lenden, 1849. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, a general on horseback receiving the Sikhs' surrender before a hill topped with a palm tree. ... Lester Watson acquired the piece at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Matters began to escalate in 1872, when the port of Elmina, which had been the first European settlement in West Africa and was the Confederacy's principal trading point with the ... Kumase. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Instead the campaign's identity was engraved at the top of the rim. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, inscription. Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1910-1935. At King George V's succession to King Edward VII in 1910, most of the service medals then on issue were ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The British forces in Afghanistan were for a short while confined to those at the fort of Khelat-i-Ghilzai and the garrison of Jalalabad, which withstood siege until it could ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, inscription. Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1901-1910. At King Edward VII's succession to Queen Victoria in 1901, most of the service medals then on issue were renewed ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The Lester Watson Collection also includes two other medals that belonged to him, but as these are not attached to this group they have beenNonetheless, it was as a group of ... four that Lester Watson acquired them all, at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Imperial units spent a few days cutting it off from resupply before commencing a bombardment and a final assault on 12 June that drove the Boers out of the position in ... Lester Watson acquired this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: P. McGeehan, 1917 & 1919. Obverse, crossed swords with inscriptions on scrolls, under a wreath with the royal monogram at bottom and over a four-pointed star of which the topmost point ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Khelat-i-Ghilzai withstood an even longer siege than Jalalabad, holding out for four months before its eventual relief in the campaign that restored British control in the area. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Military General Service Medal, 1848 (American War of 1812'). It had been unusual, before the reign of Queen Victoria, for medals to be issued recognising service in campaigns (except perhapsThis left, ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before