1592970597000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141522 1747245965411 1711380508000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141522 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141522 96afa917-dcc5-3d7e-bb4e-fff5533479aa 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 During the 1830s and 1840s several Dutch republics had been established outside the British Cape Colony in South Africa, among which were Transvaal and the Orange Free State, all now in modern South Africa. Transvaal was annexed briefly by the British but its independence re-established in the First Boer War. In the 1880s however the discovery of vast gold reserves in Transvaal brought large numbers of foreign settlers, largely British, across the border, and an attempted coup at the instigation of Cecil Rhodes in 1895. Military escalation followed, negotiations failed and the two Boer republics, convinced that the British intended annexation, declared war in the Cape Colony in October 1899. Boer troops immediately invaded the British provinces of Natal and the Cape Colony. Natal, at this time less urbanised than the Cape, did not give rise to such famous sieges as those further west but it did give rise to the first set-piece battle of the War, at Talana Hill on 20 October 1899, in which a British garrison at Dundee was surrounded by Boer units and forced its way through them by direct and costly frontal assault. This type of engagement, in which Imperial troops sustained far higher casualties than the Boers but the Boers, being willing to sustain fewer, abandoned the field nonetheless, would become typical of the War. The earliest issues of the medal indicate that the War was not expected to last as long as it did, as they bear the dates 1899-1900 in the reverse field. Very few were issued in this state, but a large number of the first issues show signs of the dates' erasure, often as in this case insufficiently thorough. This medal was awarded to Private J. Sullivan of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928. CM.1428-2009 1 accession number CM.1428-2009 141522 priref 141522 Watson Catalogue 340 ordering M-0311 previous object number LW.0311 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141522 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141522 Bust of Victoria facing left with veil obverse VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX design Britannia in foreground facing right holding standard and waving wreath over army marching along shore, with ships offshore in background 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 1902 1902 1902 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-174946 adlib-agent-174946 97851273-f820-36e3-970a-41d6d59650df Saulles, George W. de with the title of ruler reference agent-174945 adlib-agent-174945 53c52c53-979d-3cdf-9a0b-6b7b691fe2dd Victoria regina et imperatrix 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 36.4 Weight g 38.29 reference media-116595 adlib-media-116595 87ce4884-7321-3083-9f92-d62f2783ae20 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 150 1742589816137 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 150 1742589816137 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 150 1742589816137 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 150 1742589816137 1 image 0 media image reference media-116596 adlib-media-116596 d822f2d9-f03f-3e17-9761-64385ff725be jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 145 1742589825822 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 145 1742589825822 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 145 1742589825822 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0311_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 145 1742589825822 1 image 1 media image reference term-123031 adlib-term-123031 b551dc41-4600-347e-aea2-3d6d1879cbc3 Queen's South Africa Medal (second striking) 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, acquired before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 430-433, 436, 443-453 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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