IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141360
accession number:	CM.1266-2009

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.
Lushai is now a mountain district of modern India, but was not part of any large state for much of the nineteenth century, and its inhabitants not afraid to raid British India or attack local forts. This resulted in a series of five small expeditions into the area in 1889-1892, for which this bar was awarded to the troops involved.
This medal was awarded to Private J. Mackey, of the 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 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/141360





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1893 - 1895
creation date earliest:	1893
creation date latest:	1895

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

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.1

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 41.76



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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