In Search of Pte. James Hawkins – in “Streatfeild’s Fingoes” The auction house Spink recently sold the South Africa 1877-79 medal, with clasp 1877-8 to a Pte. J. Hawkins serving …

“Zululand and Cetewayo” – the journey of Walter Ludlow By any standards, Walter Robert Ludlow lived a remarkably active and full life; he is one of those people who make …

A Medal for an Epidemic – the Ebola Medal of 2015 Recently, there were proposals to award a special medal to those ‘frontline’ NHS staff and associated services who had …

“Guests of Napoleon” – some British Army prisoners at Givet in France, 1805-14 During the Napoleonic Wars, something between 20,000 to 25,000 British military and naval personnel were held as …

A scratch artillery battery in the Sudan – M/1 at Tamaai “M” Battery of the 1st Brigade, Royal Artillery, had spent a long but peaceful time in India when it …

How to capture a town : A Distinguished Service Medal for Mesopotamia. The Distinguished Service Medal was one of the new bravery medals like the Military Cross and the Military …

The Mutiny at Meerut, 10th May 1857 “Sudden and short lived liked a Summer gale” As is well known, what is called in India “The First War of Independence” and …

Mutiny at Kumassi – the West African Regiment, 1901 During the period of the European “scramble” for Africa and particularly for West Africa after 1885, Britain deployed a very limited …