1592963646000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141412 1747245965945 1711380488000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141412 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141412 f4159fc4-7839-3232-a80e-d0c6415af9ee 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 British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes in an attempt to match the successes of the British East India Company from the base of the British Cape Colony (now South Africa) into the briefly-Portuguese territories to the north, an area soon known as Rhodesia. The Company, given a royal charter in 1889, recruited its own forces and from 1890 onwards significant engagements resulted in the award of this medal to those troops. One of their opponents was Lobengula Kumalo, King of the Matabele, a Zulu people who had established a separate nation in the early nineteenth century. This nation became one of the BSAC's target territories and fear of the imminent colonisation led to attacks on Company territories in Bechuanaland (in the Cape Colony, now South Africa) in 1893 and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1896, the latter joined by an uprising of the Mashona people, whose province now lies in Zimbabwe and had been annexed in 1890. It was the suppression of the Mashona uprising, achieved by the capture of the Mashona chiefs, that earnt the bar on this medal, which was awarded to Corporal J. Munroe of the British South African Police. Its suspension is unusual. Lester Watson purchased it from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928. CM.1318-2009 1 accession number CM.1318-2009 141412 priref 141412 Watson Catalogue 223 ordering M-0201 previous object number LW.0201 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141412 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141412 Bust of Victoria facing left with veil obverse VICTORIA REGINA design Lion with spear in chest leaping over African native wargear, brush behind 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 1897 1897 1897 mint reference agent-151458 adlib-agent-151458 eaf43d27-c4d5-3357-b79a-b169ccbb73ec Birmingham issuer reference agent-174985 adlib-agent-174985 f0d97223-d1a9-3c42-a255-df707debacc2 British South Africa Company artist reference agent-174986 adlib-agent-174986 7710bb3f-01f4-3f22-99d4-ca52916b6702 Caton Woodville, R. ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) with the title of ruler reference agent-174943 adlib-agent-174943 9c2be08c-ce74-3f9c-b796-3c936a5088e0 Victoria regina reference term-107687 adlib-term-107687 61b7b4a0-65d8-3856-9253-f53f17d65f43 Birmingham reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 36.8 Weight g 37.89 reference media-116375 adlib-media-116375 6bbb13a5-0a01-32de-bd66-acc00a0bc59e jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589765136 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589765136 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589765136 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 132 1742589765136 1 image 0 media image reference media-116376 adlib-media-116376 47b6c5f8-021d-3b09-83b5-3cb6761418de jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589735286 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589735286 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589735286 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0201_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589735286 1 image 1 media image reference term-122933 adlib-term-122933 e3bd32ef-c8b3-3efe-aeab-f6f557d7df97 British South Africa Company Medal (Mashonaland 1897) 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-127853 adlib-term-127853 bdaa463a-7f70-34f9-8a60-d67a880f5378 Colonial Forces subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Spink before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 375-376, 380-381 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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