NAM.2001-07-147-1-3

Soldiers’ Total Abstinence Association Medal, three years of abstinence, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1867 (c) Probably awarded to RSM J Dray, The Buffs. Awarded for 3 years temperance. Lozenge-shaped medal with, on the obverse, a four-pointed star, with a central disc on which is a lion couchant, over the inscription, ‘India’. On the reverse, an upright sword wrapped in a riband bearing the motto, ‘Watch and be Sober’. Around the edges is the association’s title, ‘Soldiers Total Abstinence Association’. From a Temperance Medal group awarded to Maj F H Keeler, T.D and RSM. J Dray, M.S.M., The Buffs Regiment. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.