IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141585 accession number: CM.1489-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 22 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: In its origins an unofficial organisation by the City of London for its defence, first recognised by royal charter in 1537, the Honourable Artillery Co. of London is reckoned the oldest regiment of the Royal Army, although it was only formally placed under state control in 1860. In 1907 the Company as a whole was taken into the Territorial Reserve, now the Territorial Army of which it is still a part. Though very much an association first and a military unit second the Company has won numerous battle honours and currently performs surveillance for the NATO Rapid Reaction Force. Prior to 1908, units that in that year made up the new Territorial Reserve had been distributed between the Militia, volunteer battalions assigned to existing regular units, and the Volunteer Force, a separate organisation with its own structure, as part of which the Honourable Artillery Co. was reckoned. By the 1890s, the issue of long service and good conduct awards for the Army and Navy was well-established, and the institution of awards for their dependent services had begun. The Volunteer Force received its first Long Service medals in 1894, but by administrative oversight the Honourable Artillery Co. was not made eligible for it until 1906. To compensate the venerable regiment for this mistake, the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal that it was issued with was given a special ribbon to distinguish it from the regular issue. This example of the HAC's Long Service Medal was awarded to Sergeant Trumpeter W. J. Waterlow, one of its stalwart members and an alumnus of its veterans' association. It is one of three medals that were awarded to him that are now in the Watson Collection; the others precede and follow this one. The medals are not attached to each other so although the Watson Collection catalogue considers them as Group 5 they have been treated separately here. Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before 1928; they had all previously formed part of the Payne Collection. title: Volunteer Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928. Ex A. A. Payne Coll. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Lester Watson Collection creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141585 TECHNIQUES ---------- struck CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1906 - 1906 creation date earliest: 1906 creation date latest: 1906 CREATORS -------- maker: London maker: Edward VII (1901-10) maker: Britain maker: Edwardvs VII rex imperator DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 36.3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 35.54 CITATIONS -------- Medal Yearbook 2001 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 187 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 187 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 187 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 187 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 199 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 199 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 199 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 199 pixels