IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141300
accession number:	CM.1206-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Peace-keeping operations in the British possessions in Africa, as anywhere else, required a large number of small campaigns, several of which, from 1892 until 1900, were considered to merit this medal, which in terms of design is a continuation of the Ashantee War Medal. Recipients who held that medal already were therefore awarded only extra clasps.
Witu was a small state in what is now Kenya. Established in 1858 as a colony of the Sultanate of Patu, in 1885 it became the German Protectorate of Wituland by an arrangement in which the German Tana Company protected the state from the political threat of Zanzibar. In 1890 the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty saw the Protectorate ceded to British East Africa. Protests were immediate, and when several German merchants in the city of Witu were murdered, a British punitive expedition was sent in the form of 9 Royal Navy vessels.
This medal was awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class H. Gardner, who served in this campaign aboard the sloop HMS Kingfisher. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.
title:	East and West Africa Medal (1887-1900)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, acquired before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141300





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1892 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1892
creation date latest:	1900

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Wyon, Leonard Charles
maker: Poynter, Edward John
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Victoria regina

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 37.9



CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 7th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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