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8 Aug 2021: As this was not one of the original issue, it had no recipient and its first owner is unknown. ... Lester Watson purchased it 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: 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: 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: British forces were therefore sent to capture the legendarily-impregnable city, which they did at length by mining in January 1826. ... 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: It was awarded to Private E. McBeth of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Foot. ... Lester Watson purchased it 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: 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: 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 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 ... The award of this bar to him has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the

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: 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: 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: 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: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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