IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141416
accession number:	CM.1322-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Awards for Meritorious Service were instituted in the Royal Army in 1845, entitling the recipient to a medal and an annuity of £20. This was paid from a fixed fund, so that once it had been allocated no further awards could be made unless a recipient died or the fund was increased (it was doubled in 1853). One by one, similar arrangements were made by the various Colonial governments, and New Zealand's Meritorious Service Medal was instituted in 1898.
Although Queen Victoria died in 1901, the portrait on the New Zealand MSM had not yet been changed to that of the new king, Edward VII by 1903, when the inscription indicates that this medal was awarded, to Sergeant Frederick Carthy of the Royal New Zealand Artillery. Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.
title:	New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt 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/141416





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1898 - 1901
creation date earliest:	1898
creation date latest:	1901

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: United Kingdom
maker: Victoria regina et imperatrix

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 35.46



CITATIONS
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Medal Yearbook 5th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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