IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141418
accession number:	CM.1324-2009

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).
The very earliest issues of the medal bore a date either on the edge or below the bust, but after 1848 this practice ceased. This medal was therefore issued at some point between 1849 and 1901, when the death of Queen Victoria necessitated a change of the original Wyon portrait on the obverse.
It was awarded to Regimental Sergeant Major R. Knight of the 12th Lancers. Lester Watson acquired it at some point before 1928.
title:	Meritorious Service Medal

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/141418





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1846 - 1860
creation date earliest:	1846
creation date latest:	1860

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

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 34.18



CITATIONS
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Medal Yearbook 2001
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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