IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141299
accession number:	CM.1205-2009

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Peace-keeping operations in the British possessions in Africa, as anywhere else, required a large number of small campaigns, several of which, from 1892 until 1900, were considered to merit this medal, which in terms of design is a continuation of the Ashantee War Medal. Recipients who held that medal already were therefore awarded only extra clasps.
The bar for 1891-92 on this medal refers to a 3-month campaign known as the Gambia Expedition to suppress a rising in the territory of what is now Gambia under a local chief called Fodeh Kaba. As Hayward's, Birch's and Bishop's new manual puts it, "the resulting punitive expeditions were not entirely successful".
The medal was awarded to Private G. Gooding of the 2nd West India Regiment. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928.
title:	East and West Africa Medal (1887-1900)

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/141299





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1895 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1895
creation date latest:	1900

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Wyon, Leonard Charles
maker: Poynter, Edward John
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Victoria regina

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 38.42



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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