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The East and West Africa Medal with Benin Bar awarded to J.G. Graham LG Sto 2nd H.M.S Widgeon. The medal comes with research papers showing that James Graham period of Service on HMS Widgeon ran from 23 October 1896, to 11 June 1897.
The East and West Africa Medal with Benin Bar awarded to J.G. Graham LG Sto 2nd H.M.S Widgeon
The East and West Africa Medal, established in 1892, was a campaign medal awarded for minor campaigns that took place in East and West Africa between 1887 and 1900.
Awards of the medal covered punitive expeditions against local tribesmen, generally in response to attacks against Europeans or neighbouring tribes, or for operations to suppress slavery. Most medals were granted to personnel from either the Royal Navy, the West India Regiment or British led local forces, including locally recruited police.
The obverse bears a left-facing portrait of Queen Victoria with the inscription “VICTORIA REGINA”
The reverse has an image of British soldiers fighting Africans in dense jungle. The design, by Sir Edward Poynter, was also used on the reverses of the Ashantee Medal and the Central Africa Medal.
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