War Medals and Their HistorySteward, William Augustus
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War Medals and Their History
Steward, William Augustus
Great Britain. Army -- Medals, badges, decorations, etc.; Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Medals, badges, decorations, etc.
issued (the same bar was given to those who were serving at Argungu and
on convoy duty), and to those who were engaged in Nigeria between July
1902 and June 1903. In April 1905 a bar was issued inscribed N. NIGERIA
1903 to those who had taken part in the Kano-Sokoto campaign. To this
medal it was decided to add the bar SOMALILAND 1902-04, and one for
JIDBALLI to those engaged in the operations between January 1902 and
May 1904.
The only fairly complete regiment engaged in the campaign was the
1st Hampshire, and this, together with detachments of the Norfolks,
Yorkshires, and Rifle Brigade, and units of the Royal Engineers and
Army Service Corps, formed the only English Corps engaged. The rest
of the expedition included the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th King's African
Rifles; Bikanir Camel Corps; Kajawa Corps; Gudabursi Horse; Rajputs;
Sikhs; Punjabees and Indian Mounted Infantry; also the crews of
fourteen H.M. ships.
[Illustration: (Reverse.)
EGYPTIAN MEDAL FOR BRAVERY.]
[Illustration: THE MILITARY CROSS.]
[Illustration: (Obverse.)
EGYPTIAN MEDAL FOR BRAVERY.]
=Nigeria, 1902-6.=--At the battle of Jidballi the Mullah's army of
5,000 men were defeated by this little force, over 1,000 of the enemy
being killed. The loss in British officers was great; Captain Lister of
the 10th Hussars, heir to Lord Ribbledale, and 2 others being killed,
and 9 wounded. In 1905 the bar for S. NIGERIA 1902-03 was issued to
those who were engaged in South Nigeria between July 1902 and June
1903, against the Iris and the Omonoha and Ebima tribesmen, and in
the operations against the Chief Adukukaiku of Igarra. In 1906 it was
decided to give the same bar to those who took part in the expedition
in the Afikpo district between December 1902 and January 1903. In
April 1905 a bar was issued inscribed S. NIGERIA 1903 to those who
had taken part in the operations between April and July 27th, 1903.
In 1906 it was decided that the war should be issued to those who had
taken part in the expeditions in the Ebegga country west of Anan. In
April 1905 an Army Order set forth that a bar was to be issued to N.
NIGERIA 1903, and granted to those who took part in the Sokoto-Burmi
operations between April 15th and July 27th, 1903. In January 1906 a
bar for N. NIGERIA 1903-04 was authorised for distribution among the
700 native soldiers and carriers engaged in the operations in the Bassa
Province between December 1903 and March 1904. A bar for N. NIGERIA
1904 was granted to those who took part in four little expeditions,
and S. NIGERIA 1903-04 to those employed in the expedition between
December 1903 and January 1904 against the towns of Osca, Oriri, and
N'doto. The bar for S. NIGERIA 1904 was added for a series of five
expeditions, and a further addition to the Nigerian clasps was made in
June 1906 by the approval of one inscribed S. NIGERIA 1904-05, given
for operations between November 1894 and February 1895 in the Ibibio
and Kwa countries. The bar for S.
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