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

8 Aug 2021: Ill-treatment of a diplomatic mission and border raiding compelled British intervention at the end of that year. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Afghan interference in this conflict led the British to negotiate the emplacement of a garrison at Chitral in 1895 to safeguard their position. ... It has been renamed. Lester Watson acquired the 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: 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: Reverse, a full-rigged ship at sea in a circle of rope. ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point between then and 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 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: Several serious defeats of Egyptian forces in 1884 by his forces led to a concerted British campaign in defence of Egyptian claims, but but despite a victory at El-Teb and ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: From 1910 the medal bore a portrait of King George V by Richard Garbe, and it is one of this issue that belongs to the Watson Collection. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.