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8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded for a battle of the American War of 1812'. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously formed part of the Whalley Collection.

8 Aug 2021: This one was awarded to Gunner C. F. Hartlen of the Halifax Garrison Artillery. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This one was awarded to Corporal J. Smart of the Royal Canadian Rifles. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private James Lavis, of the Royal Marines contingent aboard the Amazon. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Able Bodied Seaman Simon Redgrave of the 24-gun frigate HMS Magicienne, which took no actual part in the battle. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Vittoria. This medal was awarded to Captain of Forecastle Joshua Carson, of HMS Reindeer. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: This, while boosting the country's productivity, also caused resentment among the local population. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Baldwin in 1933.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased this medal in a New York auction in November 1926. ... Before this it had been sold at the London house Glendining in July 1904.

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: Among the regular forces involved in the suppression of the revolt was Sapper Gabriel of the 2nd Battalion, Queen Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners, whose medal this is. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This in turn, along with the manufacture in most cases of more bars than were eventually issued, has led to the improvement' of many common awards where recipients' names are shared ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin

8 Aug 2021: 55). Survivors won this bar 44 years later. One such was Able Bodied Seaman James Cole, who went from Centurion to serve in HMS Revenge. ... Presumably AB Cole managed to leave naval service after this. Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London

8 Aug 2021: battle. This medal is inscribed to Boy John Carter, a trumpeter aboard the Northumberland at the time of the battle. ... This was one of the last pieces acquired for the Watson Collection: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin in 1936

8 Aug 2021: A party whose task was to delineate the frontier with Afghanistan had been attacked and embroiled in a fierce battle at its camp; this merited the kind of punishment that these ... Savage of the 2nd Border Regiment, whose medal this is. Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: The rarity of this medal, which is inscribed to Boy John Wilson, a Marine aboard the Boadicea, raises questions. ... Nonetheless, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The action for which this bar was awarded was however a rather larger one, the Battle of the Basque Roads. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously belonged to Greg, who obtained it in 1887.

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: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Able Bodied Seaman T. Simpkin, whose vessel, HMS Spiteful, despite only being a paddle-steamer single-handedly quelled piracy in the Arabian Gulf during the campaign, ... Simpkin was presumably part of this effort, and Lester

8 Aug 2021: The latter force also went on to relieve Kanpur, but by this time Baxendale appears to have no longer been fighting. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.