IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141292
accession number:	CM.1198-2009

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 Distinguished Service Order was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1886, to reward individual instances of meritorious or distinguished service in war, usually under fire--resentment among front-line troops over awards to staff officers during the Great War led this to be made official policy in 1917. Until 1943 only those mentioned in despatches were eligible. The medal is still awarded for outstanding military command or leadership.
Precise dating of this example is difficult, beyond the fact that it is an issue of the reign of George V, and that it was in the Watson Collection by 1928. Lester Watson purchased it at some point before the making of his catalogue that year.
title:	Distinguished Service Order

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt 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/141292





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1910 - 1928
creation date earliest:	1910
creation date latest:	1928

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

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 40.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 34.47



CITATIONS
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Medal Yearbook 2001
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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