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8 Aug 2021: Mr Boulton's Trafalgar Medal (gold), 1860-95. After Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar in 1805 the prominent Birmingham industrialist Matthew Boulton distributed about 15,000 Trafalgar Medals at his own ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before

8 Aug 2021: H. Kingshott, 1833. Obverse, a collection of war trophies with a royal shield at the centre. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to all members of the British Armed Forces who had fought in the War; some five million were issued. ... Lester Watson bought it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to all members of the British Armed Forces who had fought in the War; some five million were issued. ... This medal was acquired with the rest of the group by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: An ongoing amateur research project is currently collecting material of this kind, but the example in the Watson Collection unfortunately has no such back-history. ... All that can be said is that Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, an army approaching a coastal city, with boats at sea to the left beyond a tall palm. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: To earn it a sailor had to have twenty years' service to his credit, although some had amassed rather more by the time of their discharge. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was made in small numbers in India but the bulk of the issue was done at the Soho mint in Birmingham, and this gold example came from there. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, the Portuguese arms arranged at the left on a central tranverse bar composed of Portuguese crosses, the central word of legend being overlaid. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The phrase New Zealand Wars covers a variety of affrays, whose common factors were relatively few beyond that all, at some level, involved government forces suppressing risings by the indigenous Maori ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, an army approaching a coastal city, with boats at sea to the left beyond a tall palm. ... This one is unnamed, so the recipient cannot be identified. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In January 1895 the Royal Niger Company's station at Akassa was attacked and more than forty people killed. ... Her complement later earnt another medal which has ended up in the Watson Collection.) Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London

8 Aug 2021: Because of the number of men available to the Afridis and the stretched demands on British forces it was some time before a response could be coordinated, but towards the end ... D. Patch of the 9th Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery. Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: As a result, a small punitive expedition was sent in 1893, which landed at the island town of Lamu in the Sultan's home state of Pate (now also in Kenya). ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The Company's decorations and awards however often continued in issue for some time, and thus the last issues of the Company's Long Service Medal were made in 1873. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Another battle was fought the same day at Punniar with similarly decisive results, and for participation in that or the Battle of Maharajpur, this star was issued by the Honourable East ... Lester Watson purchased his star at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Baltic Medal, 1856. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, Britannia seated with a trident, a cannon at her feet, before two distant fortresses. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Obverse, a bust of King Edward VII. Reverse, the British lion standing on a rock at the left watching the sunrise; a shield and two assegais below. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Riots against Europeans in Alexandria led to British intervention after some indecision, and the coup was suppressed by British arms. ... Lester Watson acquired this piece at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson bought his medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The recipient of this medal was Orderly F. Whittle of HMS Endymion (not to be confused with the earlier frigate of the name, some of whose crew'sthe Watson collection). ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Afghan interference in this conflict led the British to negotiate the emplacement of a garrison at Chitral in 1895 to safeguard their position. ... It has been renamed. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: of 4,000 that had been sent against Montreal at the Châteauguay River. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is one of three of his medals that are now in the Watson Collection;follow. ... Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before 1928; they had all previously formed part of the Payne Collection.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson acquired the cross at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Ill-treatment of a diplomatic mission and border raiding compelled British intervention at the end of that year. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The Imperial advance continued in this unbalanced way, including a bitter close engagement at Driefontein on 10 March 1900, whose site has only recently been reinvestigated. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928, and had previously been part of the Payne Collection.

8 Aug 2021: the voyageurs to participate in the capture of the Mahdist outpost at Kirbekan that earnt him the second bar to his medal. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928. The Museum is grateful to Mr G.

8 Aug 2021: a massacre of Europeans at the Battle of Isandlwana. ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Several serious defeats of Egyptian forces in 1884 by his forces led to a concerted British campaign in defence of Egyptian claims, but but despite a victory at El-Teb and ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: From 1910 the medal bore a portrait of King George V by Richard Garbe, and it is one of this issue that belongs to the Watson Collection. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Military Medal, 1916 (Great War). The Military Medal was instituted in 1916 to reward acts of bravery by NCOs and men in the Army (and at that point the Royal Flying ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The campaigns for which this medal was awarded were a number of operations against small tribes at the head of the Benue River around Yola. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Mick, of the 1st Battalion, 10th Foot. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: from a neighbouring tribe now under British protection; simultaneous campaigns against a henchman of the Gambian chieftain Fodi Kabba at Toniataba, against the Jebu tribe in modern Nigeria, and in Tambi ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point

8 Aug 2021: well as some Chinese) to relieve the foreign population of Beijing and finally suppress the rebellion. ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Precise dating of this example is difficult, beyond the fact that it is an issue of the reign of George V, and that it was in the Watson Collection by 1928. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before the making of his catalogue that year.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, a full-rigged ship at sea in a circle of rope. ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point between then and 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded for participation in a variety of small operations in the North of Nigeria, some of which were only made eligible for the medal and its bar in ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: After some international indecision this was suppressed by British arms, and this medal awarded to those involved. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.