IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141594
accession number:	CM.1497-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Saturday 22 January 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The Great War of 1914-1918 remains the bloodiest conflict in which Britain has ever been engaged. British casualties at Ypres and on the Somme from 1915 to 1918 outnumbered the entire British casualty list for the whole of the Second World War.
This medal was awarded to all members of the British Armed Forces who had fought in the War; some five million were issued. Because of the difficulty, in a conflict that had involved long-range artillery and air bombardment, of deciding eligibility for bars for individual battles, none of these were made. Unlike the Allied Victory Medal, this medal was also awarded to mobilised personnel who had not seen combat.
This medal was awarded to 2nd Lieutenant John Mitchell, of the Royal Air Force. It is one of a group of eight of his medals that are in the Lester Watson Collection.
Although the catalogue of the Watson Collection considers Mitchell's awards as its Group 7, the medals of that group are not physically attached and so have been treated separately here. Nonetheless it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them, from the London dealers Baldwin in 1928.
title:	British War Medal, 1914-20

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141594





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1920 - 1920
creation date earliest:	1920
creation date latest:	1920

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: George V (1910-36)
maker: McMillan, William
maker: Georgivs V Britt: omn: rex et Ind: imp:

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.1

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 33.92



CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 1st edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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