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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: 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: 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: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

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: 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: Lester Watson purchased it 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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: Allied Victory Medal 1914-1918 (British), 1919. Obverse, Victory standing at centre with a wreath and a palm branch. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Reverse, Victory seated on a dais that bears the inscription and is supported by three lilies; she holds a laurel wreath and a palm branch and sits before crossed standards. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: all the piece has suffered somewhat at the hands of the Royal Mint. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: 1908, at which point the medal was awarded to any Volunteers who did not wish to transfer to the new Territorial Force, but had nonetheless accumulated 16 or more years of ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the defenders there, and finally to have fought against Botha's 5,000 at Bergendal. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: fleeing Kabul before the British. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Other less successful engagements between the same armies arose at Inkermann in November 1854, and shortly before at the Battle of Balaklava, in which a Russian attempt to lift the siege ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: point. Reverse, inscription. Kimberley Star, 1900 (Second Boer War). During the 1830s and 1840s several Dutch republics had been established outside the British Cape Colony in South Africa, among which were ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point

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 the medal at some point before 1928

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

8 Aug 2021: An early allied success was the defeat at Alma in 1854 of a larger Russian army that had been sent to oppose the initial allied landings. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: George Cade, 1862. Obverse, a collection of war trophies with the Company arms on a shield at the centre. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal 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: J. Harvey, 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: 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 ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at

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: Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is not impossible that the unnamed example of that piece in the Watson Collection also belonged to Harris. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In 1896 however, Britain, alleging Ashanti cannibalism and human sacrifice, and under the pretext of recovering a debt that the previous ruler had incurred to the British twenty years before, sent ... It is unnamed, and the recipient therefore unknown.

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 purchased the medal at some point before

8 Aug 2021: This example bears no name, and its recipient is unknown. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.