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8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Lieutenant R. Pratt of the 41st Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin's in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sergeant-Major H. Kingshott, of the Waggon Train. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Awarded the medal for this campaign was Private J. Andrews of the 11th Light Dragoons, whose medal this is. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: 1918, this was not in fact done and merchant seamen sailing in war zones were awarded the new (but less splendid) Mercantile Marine War Medal instead. ... Collier, of whose service nothing more is known. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sergeant Hagar Norwood of the 40th Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it 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: Possibly therefore this medal was at some point in its history retooled with the bar bearing the famous name of Mafeking to increase its value, although in fact Farrell's original ... Lester Watson purchased the medal as it is 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: This medal, which is named to Captain Campbell, a pilot, is one such exception. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Nonetheless, the victory was commemorated by a bar, and this medal, awarded to William Gladstone, who was Surgeon's Mate aboard HMS Sans Pareil during the battle, bears it. ... The award of this bar to him has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the

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: 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: This medal was awarded to Private D. Murphy of the 4th Royal Munster Fusiliers. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Seaby in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: and Benevente, for which the bar to this medal was awarded, to Sergeant J. ... Elliott of the 10th Hussars. Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin in 1927.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private P. McHugh of the 66th Foot. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Naick Balloo of the 27th Native Infantry. ... Lester Watson purchased it in an auction in November 1926.

8 Aug 2021: Seemingly present in both the Afghan and Mahsud campaigns was Private Chowrimuthoo of the 1st Battalion, 61st Pioneers, whose medal this is. ... This must have been done very early if so, however, since Lester Watson purchased the medal, issued in 1921,

8 Aug 2021: He may also have been eligible for the NGSM, but the example of this medal in the Watson Collection appears to have gone to a seaman more junior than would have ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: His presence on the ship at this time has been verified, and the General Honours Roll confirms the award of the medal to him. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Corporal Bernard Reilly of the 68th Light Infantry. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928.