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8 Aug 2021: This makes the medal impossible to distinguish from the Ashantee War Medal when worn. ... Her complement later earnt another medal which has ended up in the Watson Collection.) Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point

8 Aug 2021: The United States was alone among the issuing nations in issuing campaign and battle clasps along with the medal, 47 different ones being authorised to cover all the theatres in which ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin

8 Aug 2021: The Company, given a royal charter in 1889, recruited its own forces and from 1890 onwards significant engagements resulted in the award of this medal to those troops. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private F. Bird of the 80th Foot, which unit joined the campaign against Sekukuni once the Galekas and Gaikis were temporarily pacified. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before

8 Aug 2021: Precise dating of this medal is difficult, beyond the fact that it is an issue of Victoria's reign, but as the recipient, Corporal W. ... It was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928, and had previously been part of the Payne Collection.

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 ... The award of this bar to him has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some

8 Aug 2021: Third China War Medal, 1901 (Boxer Rebellion). The extent to which foreign powers appeared to be able to intervene in nineteenth-century China without effective opposition from the Imperial dynasty led ... His medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, legend with wreath around. M嶮aille des 屴ad廥, 1926. Some time after the Allied victory in the Great War it was decided to issue a gallantry medal (in bronze) for all ... Its recipient in this case, who is unnamed, must have been

8 Aug 2021: To obtain the medal the recipient had to have completed 15 years' service (in the Militia, Imperial Yeomanry, Volunteers or Territorial Force, as long as 5 years of it had been ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Seaby in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: The bars on this medal indicate that its recipient, Private John Hepburn of the 99th Foot, fought at the 1857 capture of Guangzhou and the 1860 capture of the Taku Forts. ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson 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. ... Elliott of the 10th Hussars. Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: The recipient of this medal, Private William Smith of the 31st Regiment, was involved in the 1858 capture of the Taku Forts which permitted the advance to Tientsin. ... His medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Engineer 1st Class William Shaw was the first recipient of the medal, for his service aboard HMS Tartarus in West Indian and American waters. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal in the auction of the Hamilton-Smith collection, of which it may have

8 Aug 2021: This medal is engraved to Captain J. Ford, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, although his name is not on the Roll of those awarded the medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was awarded to Private Kipowetch of the East African Police Force. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Queen Victoria, by whose order the medal was issued and whose bust it therefore carried, was likewise not on the throne for the actions for which it was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This design was first issued in 1904. The bar for 1910-1913 on this medal indicates that the recipient, whose name is not known, was one of the landing party in ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Baldwin in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: Queen Victoria, by whose order the medal was issued and whose bust it therefore carried, was likewise not on the throne for the actions for which it was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it in an auction in November 1926.

8 Aug 2021: When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new obverse but the medal was otherwise unaltered. ... This must have been done very early if so, however, since Lester Watson purchased the medal, issued in 1921, from

8 Aug 2021: Central Africa Medal, 1895. Peace-keeping operations in the British possessions in Central Africa, as anywhere else, required a large number of small campaigns, several of which, from 1894-1898 and ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point