1592970592000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141355 1747245963892 1711380478000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141355 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141355 bcfc67ff-d2c7-3ca2-b497-3d2483aff94e 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, although some expeditions were thought to merit individual bars. Later campaigns received bars of their own, and the last bar awarded for the India General Service Medal was one of these, for a campaign into Waziristan in 1894 and 1895. A party whose task was to delineate the frontier with Afghanistan had been attacked and embroiled in a fierce battle at its camp; this merited the kind of punishment that these campaigns were designed to deliver. South Waziristan was for a short time in 2006 an independent Islamic fundamentalist state declared in defiance of Pakistan, of which it had otherwise been part since 1947. As Pakistan with suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in 2006, so Britain with fundamentalist insurgents in 1894. Among the troops sent to quell the earlier revolt was Private T. Savage of the 2nd Border Regiment, whose medal this is. Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928. CM.1261-2009 1 accession number CM.1261-2009 141355 priref 141355 Watson Catalogue 162 ordering M-0144 previous object number LW.0144 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141355 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141355 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 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 36.1 Weight g 41.98 reference media-116261 adlib-media-116261 cf4bcd2e-e57c-3af5-93e8-0b71d965e578 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589711287 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589711287 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589711287 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 129 1742589711287 1 image 0 media image reference media-116262 adlib-media-116262 f7fea183-c293-3c8b-9bcc-ae3f3c87e07a jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 127 1742589733694 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 127 1742589733694 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 127 1742589733694 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0144_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 127 1742589733694 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, bt before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 242-244, 263-264 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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