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Miniature British War Medal awarded to Pte Alfred Henry Watson, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Silver medal with bareheaded effigy of King George V facing left, with ‘GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP:’ around on obverse and Saint George naked on horseback and armed with a short sword. The horse tramples on the Prussian eagle shield and the emblems of death, a skull and cross-bones. In the background are ocean waves and just off-centre near the right upper rim is the risen sun of Victory. ‘1914’ and ‘1918’ above on the reverse. Ribbon comprising of a blue stripe, a narrow black stripe, a narrow white stripe toe each side and a wide orange stripe to centre. Mounted on a bar of three with makers mark to Spink & Son on reverse. Pte Watson was wounded during the Battle of the Somme (1916) and invalided out of the Army in 1917 due to his wounds.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)

Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)