1592970597000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141585 1747245965478 1711380519000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141585 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141585 70c3bdcf-a563-3964-b14d-a113bf18f715 7 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 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. CM.1489-2009 1 accession number CM.1489-2009 141585 priref 141585 Watson Catalogue 210 ordering M-0374 previous object number LW.0363b uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141585 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141585 Bust of Edward facing left obverse EDWARDVS VII REX IMPERATOR design Inscription on scrolled banner with wreath 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 1906 1906 1906 mint reference agent-149658 adlib-agent-149658 4cb81521-c6ef-3826-8224-de2a104139c5 London ruler reference agent-167399 adlib-agent-167399 5bcafb25-0bd3-36ad-9878-d98c9e13c293 Edward VII (1901-10) state reference agent-175024 adlib-agent-175024 97ae86c3-4328-3e0c-ba67-182b06de37bc Britain with the title of ruler reference agent-174947 adlib-agent-174947 253dc792-731d-3083-9b6d-3c175c4f1251 Edwardvs VII rex imperator 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 36.3 Weight g 35.54 reference media-116721 adlib-media-116721 725e6b46-00f6-3206-8502-b18b3fd3dbab jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 187 1742589834427 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 187 1742589834427 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 187 1742589834427 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 187 1742589834427 1 image 0 media image reference media-116722 adlib-media-116722 f8e17763-54bf-388d-939c-6bff3e2f92af jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 199 1742589834327 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 199 1742589834327 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 199 1742589834327 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0363b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 199 1742589834327 1 image 1 media image reference term-123110 adlib-term-123110 11b187fe-9eb7-314d-bc8c-4f75152db88b Volunteer Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal 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-122924 adlib-term-122924 aa431cc5-0c7b-3a87-b399-d05c6ee5e241 Volunteer Force subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928. Ex A. A. Payne Coll. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 232 reference publication-5895 adlib-publication-5895 0203db2c-278b-39ec-a933-7f85feae70f1 Medal Yearbook 2001 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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