East and West Africa Medal (1892) Central Africa Medal (1895) Ashanti Star (1896) Ashanti Medal (1901)
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.[1]
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.[2]
^North East Medals, Ashantee Medal 1873 - 1874, accessed 28 December 2010.
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The AshanteeMedal is a British campaign medal instituted on 1 June 1874. It was awarded to British, Colonial and allied native forces, under the command...
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first obverse in imitation of the Ashanti medal of 1874. According to Stocker, "In short, the Ashanti Medal was fused with Brock's pre-existing design...
lasted from December 1895 to February 1896. The forces who qualified for the medal included the second Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment and a composite...
part of a rearguard force to the main action. Cotter was awarded the AshanteeMedal with the Coomassie clasp. Cotter returned to England with his regiment...
present during the attack on Elmina on 13 June 1873, he was awarded the AshanteeMedal. He was appointed lieutenant on HMY Victoria and Albert on 5 September...
awarded the RNLI's silver medal for Gallantry. Festing served throughout the Third Anglo-Ashanti War of 1873–74, and when the Ashantee army under Amanquatia...
sapper number 12 was purchased with them. In 1873, in preparations for the Ashantee expedition, it is recorded "A second locomotive, called a steam sapper...
Company in the Special Service Corps and saw active service again on the Ashantee Expedition of 1895–1896, gaining the Ashanti Star, and in 1897 was promoted...
relatively short assignments. Dominica, Martinique 1809, Guadeloupe 1810, Ashantee 1873–74, West Africa 1887, West Africa 1892–93 & 94, Sierra Leone 1898...
General Sir Garnet Wolseley during the Ashanti War entitled Fighting in the Ashantee Forest. This had been commissioned by the proprietors of the Illustrated...
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