1592970592000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141446 1747245966760 1711380495000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141446 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141446 669803e6-d1b3-3687-b1c5-5f463cbad86e 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 Just as in 1848 the extensive land campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars and the other conflicts of the pre-Victorian era were recognised by the issue of the Military General Service Medal, those serving in the Navy at the time were recognised with the Naval General Service Medal. As with the Army equivalent and the East India Company's related award, many of the battles for which the medal was awarded had been fought so long ago that few if any claimants survived. In addition, bars were awarded for many actions whose significance and size were, despite the heroism displayed by those involved, relatively minor. The result was that many of the bars were issued in tiny numbers, with some combinations all but unique, and the medals command a very high price among collectors because of this rarity and individuality. This in turn, along with the manufacture in most cases of more bars than were eventually issued, has led to the `improvement' of many common awards where recipients' names are shared with those present at `rarer' battles. The medal also shares with the Military General Service and Army of India Medals the oddity that Queen Victoria, whose portrait they bear, was not the ruler under whom the battles for which it was awarded were fought. The battle for which this bar was awarded was a spreading and vague action off the Isle de Groix, in which a British fleet of 25 ships under Admiral Bridport engaged a French fleet of 23 of the line, and captured three but allowed nine more that could have been taken to escape through indecision. Nonetheless, the victory was commemorated by a bar, and this medal, awarded to William Gladstone, who was Surgeon's Mate aboard HMS Sans Pareil during the battle, bears it. The award of this bar to him has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928. CM.1352-2009 1 accession number CM.1352-2009 141446 priref 141446 Watson Catalogue 258 ordering M-0235 previous object number LW.0235 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141446 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141446 Bust of Victoria facing left obverse VICTORIA REGINA design Britannia with trident seated sideways on seahorse 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 1849 1849 1849 1849 1851 1 1851 1851 1851 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-174941 adlib-agent-174941 8ba653dd-3bef-332c-a3cb-822cc499c1fd Wyon, William 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 36.2 Weight g 35.77 reference media-116443 adlib-media-116443 b83a5340-f222-30db-a552-58fac80711b5 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 144 1742589736979 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 144 1742589736979 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 144 1742589736979 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 144 1742589736979 1 image 0 media image reference media-116444 adlib-media-116444 ca244efe-2335-31b0-adff-fab96c9ef551 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 138 1742589765970 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 138 1742589765970 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 138 1742589765970 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0235_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 138 1742589765970 1 image 1 media image reference term-122970 adlib-term-122970 b450fa98-60c7-34b2-a640-44f09f296561 Naval General Service Medal (1793-1840) 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-122712 adlib-term-122712 639b4532-b2cf-3f44-a24b-84974795c1a6 Royal Navy 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 45-48, 54 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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