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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Coins: Ancient Start Price:180.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal
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650.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2018 Jan 19 @ 11:17UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal, The New Zealand Medal, effigy of Queen Victoria, facing left and wearing a diadem and veil, with the legend: VICTORIA D: G: BRITT : REG : F : D :; the bust is similar to, but larger than, that on the Abyssinian Medal issued in the same year // laurel wreath containing the year or years between which the recipient served, with the words NEW ZEALAND above and VIRTUTIS HONOR (Honour of valour) below; generally colonial militia medals are undated, as were some to Imperial forces, designed by the brothers A. B. and J. S. Wyon, with new ribbon, awarded to 785 [Private] T[homas] Richardson, 40th Foot, ex The Springfield Collection, Part 2 (Bowers & Ruddy Galleries 15-18 Dec 1981), Lot 03550. The New Zealand Medal was a campaign medal awarded to Imperial and Colonial troops in the New Zealand Wars of 1845-47 (and for 1848) and 1860-66. The New Zealand Wars were previously known as the Maori Wars, Anglo-Maori Wars or Land Wars. Imperial forces included the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The Colonial militia were recruited locally or in Australia, and included mobile forces like Von Tempskys Forest Rangers and the Arawa Flying Column from a Maori tribe for the guerrilla war in the New Zealand bush. The 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales' Volunteers) to form the Prince of Wales' Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in 1881.