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8 Aug 2021: It was reportedly designed by Princess Henry of Battenburg, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter Beatrice, whose husband Prince Henry of Battenburg died of illness contracted on this campaign. ... It is unnamed, and the recipient therefore unknown. Lester

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: 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: As a result it is not known to whom this medal was issued. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was issued unnamed, and it is not known to whom this example was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin 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: This medal is unnamed, presumably because, being an imitation, it was not actually awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin 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: Despite a bloody suppression of the revolt here, it was decided by the East India Company (in the light of the murder of the Shah meanwhile) that it was no longer ... Lester Watson purchased 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. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: of 4,000 that had been sent against Montreal at the Châteauguay River. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: A mere 30 gold medals were struck in England, however, so it is ineluctable that the original owner was a general office or high civilian dignitary. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is one of three of his medals that are now in the Watson Collection;follow. ... Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before 1928; they had all previously formed part of the Payne Collection.

8 Aug 2021: defeat of the Maratha states in the Third Anglo-Maratha War in 1818 it was forced to recognise British suzerainty. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Obverse, a bust of King Edward VII. Reverse, the British lion standing on a rock at the left watching the sunrise; a shield and two assegais below. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The bar for Ava relates to the same campaign for which the East India Company awarded its Burma War Medal to their Indian troops (some 25 years earlier!). ... Harrison of the 38th South Stafffordshire Regiment. Lester Watson purchased it at some time

8 Aug 2021: This example is the issue made by the French Republic. The medal remains unnamed as issued, and therefore it cannot be known to whom it was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: The medal remains unnamed as issued, and therefore it cannot be known to whom it was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal remains unnamed as issued, and therefore it cannot be known to whom it was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.