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8 Aug 2021: Obverse, the head of King George V facing left. Reverse, Britannia with trident standing at the centre and placing a wreath on the hilt of a winged sword to the left. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, Britannia at left with a trident standing facing right and gesturing to sky before a British lion. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: British interests in these zones however led to punitive expeditions being sent against the Chin and the Lushai peoples at the end of 1889, for which this bar was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: two simultaneous ones against besiegers at Kohima and the Naga stronghold of Konoma, both conflicts being sparked by the murder of British representatives in Naga territories. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Adler, of the 2nd Battalion, Derby Regiment. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Yandaboo that had ended the First Anglo-Burmese War flared into open conflict, despite Burmese efforts at conciliation. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: D. Keane, 1858. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, Britannia before a lion standing facing left, she with a wreath in her right hand. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: He held Syria for six years before the Turkish Porte could face him again, and their immediate defeat led to intervention on the part of the Austrian Empire and Great Britain. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In 1897 several parts of the Frontier rose in rebellion at once, all seeing an opportunity in a Pashtun rising which began the fighting. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: This medal bears the clasp for participation in the battle of Peiwar Kotal, one of the two actions which led to Shere Ali fleeing Kabul before the British. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is part of what the catalogue of the Watson Collection considers Group 6, but as it is not physically attached to the group it has been considered separately here. ... This medal was acquired with the rest of the group by Lester Watson at some point

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

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

8 Aug 2021: He was dead before it could be issued, but Queen Victoria and the East India Company allowed it to be awarded through the usual channels anyway. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: J. Andrews, 1851. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, Victory seated facing left before a palm and war spoils, holding a laurel branch and wreath. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford 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: Initially the British feared imminent defeat, as they were outnumbered and undersupplied, but the Sikhs did not press home their advantage before the British managed to reinforce their position, whereafter they ... None surrendered. Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: East India Company's Egypt Medal, issued 1811. Obverse, a sepoy with a flagstaff flying a Union Jack before an encampment. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was therefore issued at some point between 1849 and 1901, when the death of Queen Victoria necessitated a change of the original Wyon portrait on the obverse. ... Knight of the 12th Lancers. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.