1592970592000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141354 1747245965013 1711380478000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141354 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141354 25760cc7-d096-38b5-a64f-892759eced52 8 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-122711 adlib-term-122711 1db96904-a474-3b61-a8e5-6c2d9dd557ab Lester Watson Collection Coins and Medals The Army of India Medal's issue in 1849 having marked the previous half-century's combats in the region, further conflicts in the 1850s led in 1854 to the design and issue of a General Service Medal for the theatre, for which bars would be issued as each new campaign merited. British India met Afghanistan at the North-West Frontier. Since British influence over Afghanistan competed with the Burmese kingdom of Ava and Russia, the region beyond the frontier, composed of a large number of more-or-less independent tribal statelets, was of great importance to British interests and required continual suppression by `punitive expeditions'. For the lesser ones of these the North West Frontier bar was awarded in 1869, but some expeditions were thought to merit individual bars. One such was that of the Umbeyla Expedition in 1863 by the Yusafzai Field Force, sent to quell a rising by the Pathan Bunerwal tribe in combination with Hindustani Muslim extremists. The extremists' fort at Malka was destroyed but not without fierce Bunerwal resistance. A memorial to those killed in the campaign still stands in the Umbeyla pass, including 22 men of the 101st Bengal Fusiliers, in whose ranks also served Private W. Small, whose medal this is. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928. CM.1260-2009 1 accession number CM.1260-2009 141354 priref 141354 Watson Catalogue 161 ordering M-0143 previous object number LW.0143 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141354 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141354 Bust of Victoria facing left obverse VICTORIA REGINA design Victory crowning seated Classical warrior with laurel wreath reverse design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 reference agent-206432 adlib-agent-206432 e0b1da8e-f9e4-30be-9257-f82c89d45afb Watson, Lester 2009 2009 2009 given on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum 2005-2009 1869 1869 1869 1869 1895 1 1895 1895 1895 mint reference agent-149658 adlib-agent-149658 4cb81521-c6ef-3826-8224-de2a104139c5 London ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) artist reference agent-147914 adlib-agent-147914 5137dfbe-da76-3132-b042-fd9281d2df44 Wyon, Leonard Charles with the title of ruler reference agent-174943 adlib-agent-174943 9c2be08c-ce74-3f9c-b796-3c936a5088e0 Victoria regina reference term-106216 adlib-term-106216 825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0 London reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 36.3 Weight g 39.5 reference media-116259 adlib-media-116259 6bebfb66-6f97-3ea1-aba7-80dd9cf564a1 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589774189 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589774189 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589774189 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 153 1742589774189 1 image 0 media image reference media-116260 adlib-media-116260 b7346bc3-2031-3b8a-90dd-4665e0a8b9bf jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 149 1742589760775 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 149 1742589760775 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 149 1742589760775 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0143_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 149 1742589760775 1 image 1 media image reference term-122861 adlib-term-122861 ccd0a572-3f62-3236-9acc-b42761c05a9f Indian General Service Medal (1854-95) denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-108659 adlib-term-108659 cc732dec-4543-389e-a737-cf22bb7d2ee2 Military subseries reference term-107681 adlib-term-107681 e80da827-45c6-3b71-a3ef-28794a05e4a8 Britain subsubseries reference term-122717 adlib-term-122717 140af9ad-d215-34d9-9d42-52ecb5d3fead British Army subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, acquired before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 242-244, 249-250 reference publication-5886 adlib-publication-5886 a6056c29-399c-38dd-9710-5b3f2d44b8a6 British Battles and Medals 7th edn reference publication-5910 adlib-publication-5910 0d1d8526-5493-32bd-93b4-acd4cdcec7f9 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)

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