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8 Aug 2021: Provision was made to award the medal in future to officers of the Merchant Navy serving in transports, but when opportunity came in the form of the Great War of ... L. Jackson, of whose service nothing more is known. Lester Watson purchased the medal at

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: This medal was awarded to Private G. Palmer of the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The portrait of Victoria on the medal's obverse was changed at the succession of King Edward VII, but otherwise the medal was unaltered until the Volunteer Force was disbanded in ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: French troops who survived combat in the Dardanelles, in which French forces took nearly as many casualties as the Australians, were in 1926 awarded this medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal which he received should bear clasps for Cape Colony and South Africa 1902. ... Lester Watson purchased it anyway at some point before 1928. The Museum must gratefully acknowledge the research of Mr Tony Jones in the Liverpool Regiment's rolls

8 Aug 2021: Candahar, Ghuznee and Cabul Medal (First Anglo-Afghan War). The First Afghan War of 1839 had culminated in the British restoration of the Shah Shujah al-Mulk, a situation which caused ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: One recipient of the medal was Private R. Hamilton, of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Foot. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Trooper J. S Hicks of the Alberta Mounted Rifles. ... rebels. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The third bar to his medal indicates that he was also involved in the fierce fighting involved in the following recapture of Kabul. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Some account of these services is given with the entries for each individual medal. ... The Lester Watson Collection includes his entire medal group, purchased as one by Lester Watson from the London dealers Seaby in 1929.

8 Aug 2021: Some account of these services is given with the entries for each individual medal. ... The Lester Watson Collection includes his entire medal group, purchased as one by Lester Watson from the London dealers Seaby in 1929.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Battery Quartermaster Sergeant J. Christie of the Royal Field Artillery. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal bears the bar for participation in that battle, and for action during the long siege of Sevastopol. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private D. Bryce of the 2nd West India Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal 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 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: This medal was awarded to Sergeant Thomas Hughes of the 9th Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Woods of the 2nd Battalion Loyals, or 81st Foot. This is his medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Spink in 1925.

8 Aug 2021: The Japanese issue of the medal, of which this is probably a French copy made for collectors in 1920, was different from all the others in that it did not feature ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.