IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141372
accession number:	CM.1278-2009

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. When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new obverse but the medal was otherwise unaltered.
British rule in Burma, formalised after the British victory in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, naturally involved a more demanding taxation system than the Burmese had been used to, and a monk and healer by the name of Saya San became a spokesman of resistance during a survey of the peasantry that he conducted in 1927. New taxes imposed in 1929 led Saya San to instigate a local revolt, which rapidly flared out of his control all across the country. The subsequent British campaign took two years to quell all unrest; Saya San was hanged.
Participation in this campaign earnt this clasp to the Indian General Service Medal. This example was awarded to Private F. Delaney of the Manchester Regiment. It was one of the last pieces acquired by Lester Watson, purchased from the London dealers Baldwin in 1936.
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, bt Baldwin 1936


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/141372





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1912 - 1935
creation date earliest:	1912
creation date latest:	1935

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Royal Mint
maker: George V (1910-36)
maker: Garbe, Richard
maker: GEORGIVS V KAISAR. I. HIND

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 42.31



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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