IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141371 accession number: CM.1277-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 15 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The India Medal of 1895 having needed alteration for its last issues due to the death of Queen Victoria, in 1908 it was decided to replace it entirely with a new medal of Edward VII, which was first issued in 1909. When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new obverse but the medal was otherwise unaltered. The North West Frontier that divided India and Afghanistan was a continual source of military trouble throughout the British rule of India, and very many medals and bars were issued for engagements there. One of the last was this issue of the Indian General Service Medal, awarded to forces involved in the suppression of a rising among the Afridi tribes beyond the border in 1930, and in that of the so-called Red Shirt Rebellion, a fledgling independence movement occasioned by the limited successes of the Indian Independence movement to the south-east. This example was awarded to Private R. J. Darling of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. It was one of the last pieces acquired by Lester Watson, purchased from the London dealers Baldwin in 1936. title: Indian General Service Medal (1908-35) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1936 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/141371 TECHNIQUES ---------- struck CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1931 - 1935 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1935 CREATORS -------- maker: London maker: Royal Mint maker: George V (1910-36) maker: Garbe, Richard maker: GEORGIVS V KAISAR. I. HIND DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 36.4 dimension: Weight units: g value: 41.5 CITATIONS -------- British Battles and Medals 7th edn 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_0160_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0160_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 106 pixels