1592963646000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141599 1755194555369 1714401673000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141599 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141599 c9d2d5e1-23b4-38db-9422-568e46e874eb 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 The Order of St Anne was founded at Kiel by Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp, son-in-law of the Russian Emperor Peter the Great and an exile at his court at the time. In 1796 the Order was incorporated with the Russian military orders. During the collapse of Tsarist Russia in the Revolution of 1917, a Provisional Government was briefly formed to represent the interests of government against the Bolshevik factions of the new order, and then various regional governments were formed in their wake, but what came to be classed as White Russian (as opposed to Red) resistance was eventually (by the end of 1918) crystallised around the Siberian Regional Government led by the Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak. Despite the death of not only Tsar Nicholas II in 1917 but Grand Duke Michael his notional successor in 1918, effectively ending the Romanov royal line in whose name they were given, Kolchak's government maintained the issue of royal decorations and orders until the final collapse of the White Russian resistance in 1921, by which time Kolchak, perhaps their most capable military leader, had been made to resign. This Badge is not named, but we know from its provenance that it was awarded to 2nd Lieutenant John Mitchell, of the Royal Air Force contingent that served in South Russia in support of British forces embroiled in the unsuccessful defence of White Russia, with whose other medals Lester Watson acquired it. Mitchell's endeavours in this theatre won him decorations both for military gallantry and life-saving actions from each of Britain and the White Russians. 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. CM.1502-2009 1 accession number CM.1502-2009 141599 priref 141599 Watson Catalogue 353 ordering M-0388 previous object number LW.0365h uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141599 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141599 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 1919 1919 1919 state reference agent-173747 adlib-agent-173747 a35ce2b8-511d-32b8-b2b9-458339b53a0d Russia reference term-107860 adlib-term-107860 e84040b1-16e8-3dad-9ba8-e1bcee76e818 literal Russia Russia country Russia reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Diameter mm 43.3 Weight g 20.89 reference media-116749 adlib-media-116749 23a892b0-5fe2-3c39-a553-9dc58f23957c jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 188 1742589859378 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 188 1742589859378 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 188 1742589859378 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 188 1742589859378 1 image 0 media image reference media-116750 adlib-media-116750 b27ae3cd-f739-301c-ba01-a8fb34dc5563 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 178 1742589845056 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 178 1742589845056 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 178 1742589845056 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0365h_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 178 1742589845056 1 image 1 media image reference term-123119 adlib-term-123119 589e564f-6d36-3a73-9998-702279c8c5db Badge of the Order of St Anne, 2nd Class 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-107860 adlib-term-107860 e84040b1-16e8-3dad-9ba8-e1bcee76e818 Russia subsubseries reference term-122743 adlib-term-122743 49dbb948-df9d-38dd-9c5d-1d971e22fead Royal Air Force subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 361 reference publication-6481 adlib-publication-6481 61f1069f-835a-35ca-a5c2-f822e618f8bf Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations Awarded to the Ar 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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