IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141285 accession number: CM.1191-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The Ottoman Sultan Abdúlmecid, once committed to the Crimean alliance, was eager to foster close cooperation between his forces and those of his allies; Turkish troops sometimes operated under British or French command, and British or French troops with Turkish units. This co-operation was symbolised by the issue of Turkish military medals to troops of the allied nations. The Medal for Glory, effectively a General Service award, had been instituted in 1831, but in 1854 a special issue was struck and presented by the Sultan at his palace to a limited number of British officers and men who had been conspicuous in the fighting. It is not known to which of those recipients this medal was awarded, as it is unnamed. Lester Watson bought it from the dealer Lowe at some point before 1928. title: Medal for Glory (Turkish General Service Medal) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Lowe before 1928 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Lester Watson Collection creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141285 TECHNIQUES ---------- struck CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1855 - 1855 creation date earliest: 1855 creation date latest: 1855 CREATORS -------- maker: Ottoman Empire maker: ‘Abd al-Majid (1823-61) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 31 dimension: Weight units: g value: 17.44 CITATIONS -------- Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations Awarded to the Ar British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 154 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 154 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 154 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 154 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 150 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 150 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 150 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0074_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 150 pixels