IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141395
accession number:	CM.1301-2009

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A Naval Long Service Medal was instituted by King William IV in 1831, the year after that for the Army; when Queen Victoria succeeded that issue was for a while continued, but the medal was updated, with new designs by William Wyon, in 1848. To earn it a sailor had to have twenty years' service to his credit, although some had amassed rather more by the time of their discharge.
Some of the earliest issues of the new Wyon design bore the date 1848 in the exergue of the obverse; this was later abandoned but can be seen here. This medal was awarded to Able Bodied Seaman Joshua Holdam, of the third-rate battleship HMS Illustrious, for 26 years' service. Lester Watson acquired the medal at some point before 1928.
title:	Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal

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/141395





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1848 - 1848
creation date earliest:	1848
creation date latest:	1848

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Wyon, William
maker: Victoria regina

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 33.37



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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Medal Yearbook 2001
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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