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Southern Africa Medal

Southern Africa Medal is a military decoration. It is recorded from 1987.

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Identity

What the record establishes about Southern Africa Medal.

Boer War: Queen Alexandra at Devonshire House, London, presenting war medals to the nurses of the Imperial Yeomanry hospital, South Africa. Pen and ink drawing by O. Paque, 1902. is dated [1902] and held by Wellcome Collection. Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal) is dated 1942 - 2000 and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 3 objects associated with this heading. Southern Africa Medal is recorded from 1987.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Southern Africa Medal may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Southern Africa Medal is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q17091864.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1902Boer War: Queen Alexandra at Devonshire House, London, presenting war medals to the nurses of the Imperial Yeomanry hospital, South Africa. Pen and ink drawing by O. Paque, 1902. (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1902File of material re Arthur Martin Leake's double Victoria Cross, including photocopies of letters from Generals Kitchener, Roberts, etc., recommending Martin-Leake for DSO or Victoria Cross in South Africa in 1902, typescript copies of letters recommending a bar to his Victoria Cross for his conduct in Zonnebeke in 1914, and letter from Messrs. Hancock & Co., suggesting designs for the bar (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1902Boer War: Queen Alexandra at Devonshire House, London, presenting war medals to the nurses of the Imperial Yeomanry hospital, South Africa. Pen and ink drawing by O. Paque, 1902. is dated [1902] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  4. 1942Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal) (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1942Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal) is dated 1942 - 2000 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  6. 1987Southern Africa Medal first recorded.
  7. 1987Southern Africa Medal is recorded from 1987.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Margaret Wrong Medal, 1954, Africa, 1955

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Margaret Wrong Medal, Africa, 1955

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Margaret Wrong Medal, Africa, 1956

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “Southern Africa Medal”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    The Margaret Wrong Medal 1954, Africa, 1954

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    The Royal African Society's Silver Medal, Africa, 1945

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 3 works naming Southern Africa Medal.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  8. 8.

    “Southern Africa Medal”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q17091864: Southern Africa Medal

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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