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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal. VF

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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal. VF
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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal, 36mm, The East and West Africa Medal, left-facing veiled portrait of Queen Victoria with the inscription VICTORIA REGINA // British soldiers fighting Africans in dense jungle, issued to 1262 CPL W. FRASER, 2/W.I.R., with new hanger and ribbon, cleaned, VF, R. 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. A total of twenty one clasps were issued. Awards of the medal covered punitive expeditions against local tribesmen, generally in response to attacks against Europeans or neighboring 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 design, by Sir Edward Poynter, was also used on the reverses of the Ashantee Medal and the Central Africa Medal. The West India Regiments (WIR) were infantry units of the British Army recruited from and normally stationed in the British colonies of the Caribbean between 1795 and 1927. In 1888 the two West India Regiments then in existence were reduced to a single unit of two battalions. This regiment differed from similar forces raised in other parts of the British Empire in that it formed an integral part of the regular British Army.