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8 Aug 2021: The award of the medal is not dated, but as Commonwealth was stricken in 1921, the medal must date from before then. ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point between then and 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, a cannon and mortar left and right before four standards of Crimean Allies, French flag to the front. ... Lester Watson acquired 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: Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The remains of this force retired back to Kandahar where they were heavily besieged for a month before relief could arrive from Kabul. ... Lester Watson acquired this piece at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Meritorious Service Medal (East India Co.), 1848-1873. With the introduction in 1845 of the Meritorious Service Medal for home troops of the Empire, it was not long before the Honourable ... This medal is unnamed, and its recipient cannot be determined.

8 Aug 2021: which the topmost point is replaced by a crown. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The result was that many of the bars were issued in tiny numbers, with some combinations all but unique, and the medals command a very high price among collectors because of ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: R. Muir, 1880. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, a lion stooping to drink before a mimosa bush; in the exergue a Zulu shield on four crossed assegais. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, a lion couchant before a mimosa bush; in the exergue the date "1853". ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to the British forces involved in an operation against the Dervish forces of the so-called Mad Mullah', Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, at Kismayu in modern-day ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Spink at some

8 Aug 2021: The result was that many of the bars were issued in tiny numbers, with some combinations all but unique, and the medals command a very high price among collectors because of ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Obverse, Sultan Abdlmecid's cipher in a disc at the low centre, with spears and leaves above a flanking six-pointed star and a crescent moon left and right. ... Lester Watson bought it from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: The receipient of this medal must therefore have been awarded the Order's medal twice at some point between 1837 and 1912, when Indian troops were made eligible for the Victoria ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Indian Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1910-1935. At King George V's succession to King Edward VII in 1910, most of the service medals then on issue were renewed ... Lester Watson acquired 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: 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: 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: 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 was awarded to Lt. D. T. Davies of the Kaffir Rifles, who was therefore presumably among the defenders at Wepener. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

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: Some particularly noteworthy engagements were awarded separate bars, and numerous further campaigns followed after 1868, butwere usually awarded. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is therefore likely that at some point in its history this medal has been retooled with the rare Defence of Kimberley clasp to increase its sale value. ... Lester Watson purchased it anyway at some point before 1928. The Museum must gratefully

8 Aug 2021: It is one of three medals that were awarded to him that are now in the Watson Collection; the othersThe medals are not attached to each other so although the Watson ... Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before

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: 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: Military General Service Medal, 1848 (French Revolutionary War). It had been unusual, before the reign of Queen Victoria, for medals to be issued recognising service in campaigns (except perhapsThis left, for ... Sutton of the 24th Foot. Lester Watson

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

8 Aug 2021: They therefore turned to a dogged campaign of guerilla warfare, and it was May 1902 before the last of the distinct forces operating in the different provinces of the two Boer ... The medal incorrectly gives his first initial as C.'. Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: Patrick Boylan, 1849. Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria. Reverse, a general on horseback receiving the Sikhs' surrender before a hill topped with a palm tree. ... Lester Watson purchased the piece at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the two last bars indicate that he was in active service in South Africa until at least the beginning of 1902. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, a crossed artillery piece and axe before two standards, the nearer of which bears legend "HONNEUR / PATRIE / 1913 / 1918"; the artist's name can be seen in the left of ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Roberts of the 2nd Battalion, Sussex Regiment. Lester Watson purchased the medal 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: 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.

8 Aug 2021: s prize agent for the campaign, Alexander Davison, had this medal made in Birmingham at his own expense for distribution to the officers and men present at the battle. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: For the lesser ones of these the North West Frontier bar was awarded in 1869, but some expeditions were thought to merit individual bars. ... Small, whose medal this is. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: damaging the balance of trade, began to clamp down on it and to try to prevent importation at all. ... Lester Watson acquired 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: at the point of their discharge from service, although this was cancelled in 1875. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: supplies. Riel was forced to surrender, and was tried and hanged. He is still regarded as a hero and national father in some Québecois quarters. ... rebels. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Some of the most vicious fighting on the British expedition was met withand the bar that this medal bears acknowleges participation in that fighting, by Gunner T. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The remains of this force retired back to Kandahar where they were heavily besieged for a month before relief could arrive from Kabul. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Only some 250 Transport Medals were therefore awarded. This example was awarded to E. ... L. Jackson, of whose service nothing more is known. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.