Ashantee Medal
The Ashantee Medal is a British campaign medal instituted on 1 June 1874. It was awarded to British, Colonial and allied native forces, under the command of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, who were deployed against the army of the Ashanti King Kofi Karikari, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti (or Ashantee) War, June 1873 to February 1874. Forces present included a Royal Navy contingent exceeding 3,500, two battalions of the West India Regiment, and a battalion each from the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Black Watch and the Rifle Brigade.
Ashantee Medal
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- United Kingdom
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The Ashantee Medal is a British campaign medal instituted on 1 June 1874. It was awarded to British, Colonial and allied native forces, under the command of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, who were deployed against the army of the Ashanti King Kofi Karikari, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti (or Ashantee) War, June 1873 to February 1874. Forces present included a Royal Navy contingent exceeding 3,500, two battalions of the West India Regiment, and a battalion each from the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Black Watch and the Rifle Brigade.
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• Name — Ashantee Medal • Presenter — the United Kingdom • Type — Campaign medal • Eligibility — British, Colonial and native forces • Awarded For — Campaign Service • Campaign — Third Anglo-Ashanti War • Description — Silver, 36mm in diameter • Clasps — Coomassie • Established — 1 June 1874 • Related — East and West Africa Medal (1892) Central Africa Medal (1895) Ashanti Star (1896) Ashanti Medal (1901) • Caption2 — Ribbon bar of the medal
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COOMASSIE: awarded to those present at the Battle of Amoaful and the capture of COOMASSIE (or Kumasi), the capital, and those protecting the lines of communication north of the Prah river. Recipients who later also qualified for the East and West Africa Medal were awarded the appropriate clasp to attach to their existing Ashantee Medal.
Ashantee War Medal 1873-74 Awarded to J Hill, Dom 2nd Class, HMS Encounter, 1873-1874 circular silver medal; plain swivelling suspension bar; with ribbon obverse- head of Queen Victoria; legend- QUEEN VICTORIA reverse- relief illustration depicting British soldiers fighting African (Ashanti) warriors ribbon- black and yellow named on edge- J.HILL. DOM. 2 CL. H.M.S. ENCOUNTER 73-74 markings- obvers
Leonard Charles Wyon · Auckland Museum · API data Catalogue record Photo
Ashantee War Medal 1873-74 Awarded to J Hill, Dom 2nd Class, HMS Encounter, 1873-1874 circular silver medal; plain swivelling suspension bar; with ribbon obverse- head of Queen Victoria; legend- QUEEN VICTORIA reverse- relief illustration depicting British soldiers fighting African (Ashanti) warriors ribbon- black and yellow named on edge- J.HILL. DOM. 2 CL. H.M.S. ENCOUNTER 73-74 markings- obvers
Leonard Charles Wyon · Auckland Museum · API data Catalogue record Photo
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The medal is a silver disc, 36 mm in diameter. Obverse: the diademed, veiled head of Queen Victoria and the inscription VICTORIA REGINA, designed by Leonard Charles Wyon. Reverse: a scene of bush fighting between British and Ashanti in dense jungle, inspired by the campaign. The design, by Sir Edward Poynter, was later also used on the reverses of the East and West Africa Medal and the Central Africa Medal. Ribbon: 31.7 mm wide, with yellow with black edges and two narrow black central stripes, the same as the East and West Africa Medal. Naming: the recipient's name and unit was engraved on the rim of the medal in capitals, filled with black, along with the years 1873–4.
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- 1.North East Medals, Ashantee Medal 1873 - 1874, accessed 28 December 2010.
- 2.North East Medals note on Edward Poynter, accessed 20 April 2018.
- 3.John Mussell (ed). Medal Yearbook 2015. 149. Published by Token Publishing Ltd. Honiton, Devon.
- 4.Joslin, Litherland and Simpkin. British Battles and Medals. 149–150. Published Spink, London. 1988.
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