IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141235
accession number:	CM.1141-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The Air Force Cross was instituted in 1918 for award to officers and warrant officers of the new Royal Air Force for courage and devotion to duty while not in active operations against the enemy.
This medal was awarded to Lieutenant A. J. D. Peebles, RAF, and its award was noted in the London Gazette for the 3rd June 1919. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Baldwin at some point before 1928.
title:	Air Force Cross

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin before 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/141235





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1919 - 1919
creation date earliest:	1919
creation date latest:	1919

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: George V (1910-36)
maker: United Kingdom

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 54.6

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 41.33



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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London Gazette 3 June 1919
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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