IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141324
accession number:	CM.1230-2009

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Some time after the Allied victory in the Great War it was decided to issue a gallantry medal (in bronze) for all those French servicemen who had escaped from enemy captivity during the hostilities. The award, of which this is one, was made in 1926. Its recipient in this case, who is unnamed, must have been unfortunately short of money, because Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin only the next year, in 1927.
title:	Médaille des Évadés

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1927


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/141324





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1926 - 1926
creation date earliest:	1926
creation date latest:	1926

CREATORS
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maker: Paris
maker: France
maker: Dubois, A.
maker: Colmar, Paris

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 30

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 14.54



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