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8 Aug 2021: For fighting at Lucknow during the second relief effort and subsequent evacuation, or in the city's recapture the next year, this bar was awarded to the Indian Mutiny Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin 1927.

8 Aug 2021: the 1850s led in 1854 to the design and issue of a General Service Medal for the theatre, for which bars would be issued as each new campaign merited. ... Savage of the 2nd Border Regiment, whose medal this is. Lester Watson purchased it at some point

8 Aug 2021: The bar for Fatshan Creek means that the recipient must have been a sailor or marine, but the medal is unnamed and no further identification can be made. ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson from the London dealers Spink in 1928.

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Presumably AB Cole managed to leave naval service after this. Lester Watson purchased his

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Cartwright was nonetheless entitled to the medal, and Lester Watson purchased it at some

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Nonetheless, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford at some point

8 Aug 2021: Urabi was captured and exiled to Ceylon. The other bars of the medal relate to a later campaign, against Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad ibn al-Sayyid 'Abd Allah and his allies, who ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Abyssinian War Medal, 1869. The Abyssinian War Medal was awarded to those involved in a 1867-1868 expedition to Abyssinia to secure the release of British labourers sent to the country ... Simpkin was presumably part of this effort, and Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: Riel had already fled and the rising was quickly quelled. This medal was awarded in 1899 to those who had fought the Fenians in any of these raids or the Red ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: For this reason the medal is often called the Peninsular Medal' even though it also covered campaigns inand America. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was issued to Gunner F. H. Mather of the Royal Artillery, probably in the Royal Horse Artillery (although different batteries of this unit served in the two campaigns). ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Clorinde became HMS Aurora. Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private William Walton of the 1st Battalion, 12th Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The New Zealand Medal was instituted in 1869 to recognise service in the New Zealand Wars of 1845-46, 1847 and 1860-66, and not for any of the other conflicts ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: bar, or at least why it is not on the medal, cannot be told. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1928.

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Lester Watson purchased it late in his life, from the London dealer Seaby in 1937; it had

8 Aug 2021: As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously come up