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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: 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: It was awarded to Carrier Zakari Kano of the 2nd Northern Nigeria Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It was the suppression of the Mashona uprising, achieved by the capture of the Mashona chiefs, that earnt this medal, which was awarded to Corporal J. ... Its suspension is unusual. Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Spink at some point

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: damaging the balance of trade, began to clamp down on it and to try to prevent importation at all. ... Lester Watson purchased it 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 it from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: South Africa General Service Medal, 1880 (Zulu War). The history of the British presence in South Africa is inextricably bound up with that of the Basuto and Zulu tribes whom it ... Lester Watson purchased it 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: This medal was awarded to Sepoy Ram Singh of the 23rd Bengal Infantry, part of the Indian Contingent in Africa, but it is not known for which of the many possible ... Lester Watson purchased 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 it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is therefore perhaps not surprising that a medal was awarded to all British soldiers who had fought at Waterloo, or the two immediately prior battles at Ligny and Quatre Bras ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928. It had

8 Aug 2021: due to the lead time involved in establishing the new government, and in the interim some Czech soldiers were awarded the Belgian version of the medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In some cases, like this one, it was awarded for participation in both. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal 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: 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 ... His service aboard has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the medal from

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; it had

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: 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 his medal from the London dealers Spink at some

8 Aug 2021: some years, under Sir Arthur Wellesley, the later Duke of Wellington (who is seen on the reverse of the MGSM). ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Indian Mutiny Medal, 1858. The Indian Mutiny of 1857, now regarded in some quarters of India as the First Indian War of Independence, has a history far too complex to be ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928. ... It had previously been sold at the London dealers Glendinings on 25 September 1919, and was before that in the Lucas collection.

8 Aug 2021: For the lesser ones of these the North West Frontier bar was awarded in 1869, although some expeditions were thought to merit individual bars. ... Savage of the 2nd Border Regiment, whose medal this is. Lester Watson purchased it 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 ... Cartwright was nonetheless entitled to the medal, and Lester Watson

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; it had

8 Aug 2021: at the request of King Theodore, but imprisoned on their arrival along with other British representatives. ... Simpkin was presumably part of this effort, and Lester Watson purchased the medal awarded for it 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 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; it had

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 the medal from the London dealers Baldwin 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 the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point

8 Aug 2021: Indian Mutiny Medal, 1858. The Indian Mutiny of 1857, now regarded in some quarters of India as the First Indian War of Independence, has a history far too complex to be ... Lester Watson purchased it 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 ... Be this as it may, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer

8 Aug 2021: Also, it was at some point mounted as a brooch (the marks are visible at each side) and then removed, which would help disguise other alterations. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928; before that it had been

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: of the Shah meanwhile) that it was no longer profitable to occupy the country, and British forces withdrew until 1879. ... 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: 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: Despite a bloody suppression of the revolt here, it was decided by the East India Company (in the light of the murder of the Shah meanwhile) that it was no longer ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: F." for Republique Fran蓷ise at the right. M嶮aille Comm幦orative des Dardanelles, 1926 (Great War). ... 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: The medal was issued unnamed, and it is not known to whom this example was awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Queen's Sudan Medal, 1899. The political disintegration of the Ottoman Egyptian state during the 1880s, as it came under heavy British and French influence, permitted a rebellion in the name ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Forces were immediately sent to Kabul, and on the way defeated an Afghan force at Charasia, at which Lance Corporal Fitzgerald was also present as his bar for the action testifies. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: British. It was awarded to Private P. Lackey of the 8th Brigade, 1st Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: South Africa General Service Medal, 1880. The history of the British presence in South Africa is inextricably bound up with that of the Basuto and Zulu tribes whom it displaced. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Despite a bloody suppression of the revolt there, it was decided by the East India Company (in the light of the murder of the Shah meanwhile) that it was no longer ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It was reportedly designed by Princess Henry of Battenburg, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter Beatrice, whose husband Prince Henry of Battenburg died of illness contracted on this campaign. ... It is unnamed, and the recipient therefore unknown. Lester