IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141365
accession number:	CM.1271-2009

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 India Medal of 1895 having needed alteration for its last issues due to the death of Queen Victoria, in 1908 it was decided to replace it entirely with a new medal of Edward VII, which was first issued in 1909.
The first issue was for actions on the North-West Frontier between British India and Afghanistan, which had been a source of political tension for the length of the nineteenth century, as the precarious Imperial accommodations with local tribes required continual maintenance.
A variety of small operations in and beyond the area of the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, against the Pashtun Mohmands and others in the years preceding 1908, qualified soldiers for the first issue of this medal. This one went to Private A. Austin of the 1st Royal Warwicks. Lester Watson acquired the medal before 1928.
title:	Indian General Service Medal (1908-35)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, acquired 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/141365





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1909 - 1911
creation date earliest:	1909
creation date latest:	1911

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Edward VII (1901-10)
maker: Garbe, Richard
maker: Edwardvs VII Kaisar-i-Hind

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.1

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 44.12



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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