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8 Aug 2021: all the piece has suffered somewhat at the hands of the Royal Mint. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Only some 250 Transport Medals were therefore awarded. This example was awarded to E. ... L. Jackson, of whose service nothing more is known. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: the defenders there, and finally to have fought against Botha's 5,000 at Bergendal. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Allied Victory Medal 1914-1918 (British), 1919. Obverse, Victory standing at centre with a wreath and a palm branch. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: An early allied success was the defeat at Alma in 1854 of a larger Russian army that had been sent to oppose the initial allied landings. ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lengthy campaigns by British forces to recover control of the area led firstly to Gordon's famous defeat at Khartoum and ultimately, in 1890, to a full British withdrawal from the ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: 1908, at which point the medal was awarded to any Volunteers who did not wish to transfer to the new Territorial Force, but had nonetheless accumulated 16 or more years of ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson purchased this one 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: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: point. Reverse, inscription. Kimberley Star, 1900 (Second Boer War). During the 1830s and 1840s several Dutch republics had been established outside the British Cape Colony in South Africa, among which were ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point

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

8 Aug 2021: The Imperial advance continued in this unbalanced way, including a bitter close engagement at Driefontein on 10 March 1900, whose site has only recently been reinvestigated. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: An early allied success was the defeat at Alma in 1854 of a larger Russian army that had been sent to oppose the initial allied landings. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: on the main Sikh position at Ferozeshah soon after the outbreak of war, on 21 December 1845. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: It is not impossible that the unnamed example of that piece in the Watson Collection also belonged to Harris. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: George Cade, 1862. Obverse, a collection of war trophies with the Company arms on a shield at the centre. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: It is unnamed, and the recipient therefore unknown. Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928

8 Aug 2021: This example bears no name, and its recipient is unknown. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The campaigns against the insurgent peoples lasted some eight months and involved, as well as extensive local forces, contingents of both the British Army and the Royal Navy serving ashore. ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Next, at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, despite being outnumbered two-to-one by al-Taashi's forces, the Mahdists sustained casulaties totalling nearly half their force at ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Indian Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1901-1910. At King Edward VII's succession to Queen Victoria in 1901, most of the service medals then on issue were renewed with ... Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was awarded, as this suggests, to Company Sepoys (Indian troops); European combatants had to wait until corresponding bars were awarded to the Military and Naval General Service Medals some ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point

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: At Hafir, with bombardment support from Navy gunboats, the British forces were able to convincingly rout the Mahdist forces, whose all-out resistance was to be no match for the British ... Lester Watson acquired the medal 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: Afghan interference in this conflict led the British to negotiate the emplacement of a garrison at Chitral in 1895 to safeguard their position. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The third medal bears no inscription at all. The group is joined by stitching at the top of the ribbons. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The medal was acquired by Lester Watson at some point before 1928.

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

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 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 others precede and follow this one. ... Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before 1928; they had all previously

8 Aug 2021: The slack was taken up by men of the Militia who volunteered for service abroad, and who in some cases were sent to supply these garrisons with manpower while their regular ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: An expedition sent against them in 1877-1878 engaged their forces briefly at Jowaki and thereafter destroyed several villages by way of punishment'. ... Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of ... Lester Watson acquired this medal at some point before

8 Aug 2021: The medal was made in small numbers in India but the bulk of the issue was done at the Soho mint in Birmingham, and this silver example came from there. ... Lester Watson purchased this example from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: v. The group is mounted on a brass bar slid between the ribbons, with a pin at the back across all three ribbons to hold them in place. ... Mott, of the 1st Battalion Border Regiment. Lester Watson purchased the group from the London dealers Baldwin at

8 Aug 2021: The ruler of the Punjab at this time was the eleven-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh, around whom a rebellion rapidly coalesced. ... Lester Watson acquired the piece at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Matters began to escalate in 1872, when the port of Elmina, which had been the first European settlement in West Africa and was the Confederacy's principal trading point with the ... Kumase. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Instead the campaign's identity was engraved at the top of the rim. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

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

8 Aug 2021: of 4,000 that had been sent against Montreal at the Châteauguay River. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: P. McGeehan, 1917 & 1919. Obverse, crossed swords with inscriptions on scrolls, under a wreath with the royal monogram at bottom and over a four-pointed star of which the topmost point ... Lester Watson acquired his medal at some point before 1928.