1592970592000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141386 1747245966618 1711380484000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141386 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141386 1dfcb767-a044-300e-a6d2-7003f63b27bc 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 First Afghan War of 1839 had culminated in the British restoration of the Shah Shujah al-Mulk, a situation which caused his dissatisfied people to rise in revolt in 1841. The murder of the British envoy provoked an initial evacuation of the British garrison, most of which was massacred on its march back to India. The British forces in Afghanistan were for a short while confined to those at the fort of Khelat-i-Ghilzai and the garrison of Jalalabad. Khelat-i-Ghilzai withstood an even longer siege than Jalalabad, holding out for four months before its eventual relief in the campaign that restored British control in the area. For participation in the defence of the town the British East India Company issued this silver medal to all combatants. The particularly dogged defence by the Shah's own Afghan contingent in the town caused them to be enrolled in the British forces in Bengal thereafter as the Khelat-al-Gilzie Regiment, otherwise listed as the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Bombay Pioneers. One of these men was Havildar Maun Singh, and this is his medal. Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928. 16 reference exhibition-1967 adlib-exhibition-1967 6984c1c2-8fb8-37f2-bc1e-13468b4a0475 Imagery of War CM.1292-2009 1 accession number CM.1292-2009 141386 priref 141386 Watson Catalogue 195 ordering M-0175 previous object number LW.0175 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141386 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141386 Shield bearing inscription, surrounded by laurel wreath and surmounted by mural crown obverse KELAT / I / GHILZIE design Collection of war trophies surmounting plaque bearing inscription reverse INVICTA MDCCCXLII 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 1842 1842 1842 mint reference agent-149658 adlib-agent-149658 4cb81521-c6ef-3826-8224-de2a104139c5 London issuer reference agent-167567 adlib-agent-167567 5ce1f666-30e0-383b-bee5-fff00c8b2f38 East India Company artist reference agent-174941 adlib-agent-174941 8ba653dd-3bef-332c-a3cb-822cc499c1fd Wyon, William inferred ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) 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 36.2 Weight g 34.95 reference media-116323 adlib-media-116323 f6835240-80f3-3168-b725-58cd1b151b62 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 155 1742589722661 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 155 1742589722661 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 155 1742589722661 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 155 1742589722661 1 image 0 media image reference media-116324 adlib-media-116324 19c3adc1-7505-3ac9-a436-4dced81f32e9 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 154 1742589709054 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 154 1742589709054 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 154 1742589709054 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0175_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 154 1742589709054 1 image 1 media image reference term-122911 adlib-term-122911 f1786e5d-c56f-381c-85b5-989424a0b04f Defence of Khelat-i-Gilzie Medal 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 209-210, 218 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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