IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141308
accession number:	CM.1214-2009

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.
Even before the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin in 1897, British forces were occasionally committed against the more independently-minded chiefs of the territory. One of these, Chief Nanna Oloma of the Jekiris, was pursued and ousted by the small expedition of 1894 for participation in which this bar was awarded. Its bombardment of Nanna's capital of Brohimi was pictured in watercolour by Admiral Bedford, who led the naval forces.
This example of the medal was awarded to Boy 1st Class W. Humpherson, serving aboard HMS Phoebe (to the far right in Admiral Bedford's watercolour). Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers 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/141308





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1892 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1892
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: 36.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 38.96



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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