IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141295
accession number:	CM.1201-2009

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: British rule in East Africa was partly achieved via the British East Africa Company, which acquired possessions in Uganda that the Government took over in 1895, and partly through an agreement with Germany in 1890 which had assigned a German protectorate in what is now Kenya to the Company. Subsequent British attempts to provide a modern transport and revenue infrastructure, at the expense of traditional local custom (or indeed just at the expense of locals) resulted in varying degrees of unrest, and for campaigns against such difficulties Queen Victoria approved this medal in 1899.
The bar for Lubwa's refers to Fort Lubwa in Sudan, which in 1897 was taken over by a group of Sudanese troops who had defied orders to go on an expedition. They escaped and were defeated at Kabagambi, now in Uganda. The bar for Uganda 1897-98 meanwhile refers to participation in an expedition into the Teita area of Kenya to deal with local unrest there.
This medal was awarded to Sepoy Kale Khan of the 1st (Baluch) Battalion of the Bombay Light Infantry, part of the Indian Contingent in Africa. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Spink at some point before 1928.
title:	East and Central Africa Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Spink 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/141295





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1899 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1899
creation date latest:	1899

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Saulles, George W. de
maker: Victoria regina et imperatrix

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 44.42



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 7th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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