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8 Aug 2021: This in turn, along with the manufacture in most cases of more bars than were eventually issued, has led to the improvement' of many common awards where recipients' names are shared ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin

8 Aug 2021: A party whose task was to delineate the frontier with Afghanistan had been attacked and embroiled in a fierce battle at its camp; this merited the kind of punishment that these ... Savage of the 2nd Border Regiment, whose medal this is. Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: battle. This medal is inscribed to Boy John Carter, a trumpeter aboard the Northumberland at the time of the battle. ... This was one of the last pieces acquired for the Watson Collection: Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin in 1936

8 Aug 2021: 55). Survivors won this bar 44 years later. One such was Able Bodied Seaman James Cole, who went from Centurion to serve in HMS Revenge. ... Presumably AB Cole managed to leave naval service after this. Lester Watson purchased his medal from the London

8 Aug 2021: The rarity of this medal, which is inscribed to Boy John Wilson, a Marine aboard the Boadicea, raises questions. ... Nonetheless, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The action for which this bar was awarded was however a rather larger one, the Battle of the Basque Roads. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously belonged to Greg, who obtained it in 1887.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Able Bodied Seaman T. Simpkin, whose vessel, HMS Spiteful, despite only being a paddle-steamer single-handedly quelled piracy in the Arabian Gulf during the campaign, ... Simpkin was presumably part of this effort, and Lester

8 Aug 2021: The latter force also went on to relieve Kanpur, but by this time Baxendale appears to have no longer been fighting. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This expedition was intended to quell any support for the Bolsheviks in what remained of Persia's independent administration. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal is one of those awarded to the Eurotas's crew, to Ship's Boy John Hampton. ... Clorinde became HMS Aurora. Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1929; it had previously been sold through the London auction house