IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141352
accession number:	CM.1258-2009

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 Army of India Medal's issue in 1849 having marked the previous half-century's combats in the region, further conflicts in the 1850s led in 1854 to the design and issue of a General Service Medal for the theatre, for which bars would be issued as each new campaign merited.
The province of Maranzai, in modern Pakistan, was in the 1890s one of a number of unstable areas whose position on the North-West Frontier of India made them a paramount British concern. When, therefore, an extremist Muslim religious leader, Syed Mir Basha, declared a local jihad in the Samana Heights, two Expeditionary Forces were sequentially dispatched to settle the area.
The bar to this medal was awarded for participation in the second campaign, and the medal was awarded to Private E. Oliver of the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin in 1927.
title:	Indian General Service Medal (1854-95)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1927


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/141352





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1891 - 1895
creation date earliest:	1891
creation date latest:	1895

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Wyon, William
maker: Wyon, Leonard Charles
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Victoria regina

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 42.44



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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