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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 the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This example of the medal and bar for that campaign was awarded to Able-Bodied Seaman W. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The bars on this medal indicate that its recipient, Private John Hepburn of the 99th Foot, fought at the 1857 capture of Guangzhou and the 1860 capture of the Taku Forts. ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Waterloo Medal, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars). Most of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars, except those fought by Admiral Horatio Nelson, were not commemorated with the issue of medals at the time ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: For this reason the medal is often called the Peninsular Medal' even though it also covered campaigns in Egypt and Java. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: until 1900, were considered to merit this medal, which in terms of design is a continuation of the Ashantee War Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point from the London dealer Spink before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal is unnamed, and the recipient cannot be identified, but the bar for the battle at Foshan tells us that he was a sailor or a marine. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The recipient of this medal was one of those involved in the 1857 capture of Guangzhou. ... The medal is unnamed, and the recipient cannot be identified. Lester Watson purchased the piece at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: by the issue of the Miltary General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private W. Patter, of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Contingent formed by the Association mentioned above. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Abyssinian War Medal, 1869. The Abyssinian War Medal was awarded to those involved in a 1867-1868 expedition to Abyssinia to secure the release of British labourers sent to the country ... Simpkin was presumably part of this effort, and Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... His service aboard has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point

8 Aug 2021: The bars on this medal indicate that its recipient, Sergeant J. ... His medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The recipient of this medal, Private John Cuthbert of the 44th Regiment, was among those who took the Taku Forts in 1860 prior to campaigning to, taking and looting Beijing. ... The medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sepoy Kale Khan of the 1st (Baluch) Battalion of the Bombay Light Infantry, part of the Indian Contingent in Africa, who presumably fought at Lubwa's ... Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London dealers Spink at some

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: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: The intentions of the medal committee are hard to divine, as the medal was struck carrying the dates 1793-1814' in the reverse, but the earliest campaign considered was that in ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was however awarded to Thomas Rowlands, who was verifiably a Ship's Boy on the Endymion at the time. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously formed part of the Whalley Collection.

8 Aug 2021: Urabi was captured and exiled to Ceylon. The other bars of the medal relate to a later campaign, against Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad ibn al-Sayyid 'Abd Allah and his allies, who ... Lester Watson purchased the medal 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: well as some Chinese) to relieve the foreign population of Beijing and finally suppress the rebellion. ... From King Edward's hand to Private Jones's and eventually to Lester Watson's, who purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Riel had already fled and the rising was quickly quelled. This medal was awarded in 1899 to those who had fought the Fenians in any of these raids or the Red ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: The medal was issued to Gunner F. H. Mather of the Royal Artillery, probably in the Royal Horse Artillery (although different batteries of this unit served in the two campaigns). ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at

8 Aug 2021: Kelly, who was Clerk in HMS Hazard (aboard which vessel he also earned the First China War Medal some years earlier). ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928. The Museum is grateful to Mr G.

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: Since this medal was at some point in the hands of a workshop--it has at some point in its history been mounted as a brooch--it is very possible that ... Nonetheless, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: For this reason the medal is often called the Peninsular Medal' even though it also covered campaigns inand America. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: were recognised by the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928;

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Cartwright was nonetheless entitled to the medal, and Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: bar, or at least why it is not on the medal, cannot be told. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: recognised by the issue of the Miltary General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928;

8 Aug 2021: recognised by the issue of the Miltary General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928; it had

8 Aug 2021: recognised by the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously come up for

8 Aug 2021: Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Be this as it may, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford 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: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: recognised by the issue of the Miltary General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Whatever the truth of the matter may be, Lester Watson purchased the medal at