IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141574
accession number:	LW.0360

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Group 2: 1914-15 Star, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Victoria Cross

The circumstances of award and the history of the individual medals are discussed in their own entries, q.v.
The group is mounted on a brass bar slid between the ribbons, with a pin at the back across all three ribbons to hold them in place.
As the individual histories make clear, these were the medals of Sergeant Edward J. Mott, of the 1st Battalion Border Regiment. Lester Watson purchased the group from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.
title:	medals

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 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/141574





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal group
category: medal (military)

DATING
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creation date:	1915 - 1917
creation date earliest:	1915
creation date latest:	1917

CREATORS
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maker: George V (1910-36)
maker: London

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 116

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 95.78



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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