BRITISH ARMY BOER WAR QUEENS MEDITERRANEAN MEDAL 3rd BATTALION WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

Description

Queen’s Mediterranean Medal measures 36mm wide and is a circular silver medal with claw swivel ribbon bar suspension, the face with the veiled crowned head and shoulders portrait of Queen Victoria facing left, circumscribed ‘VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX’ (Victoria Queen and Empress), signed ‘G. W. de Saulles’ (for George William de Saulles, 1862-1903, Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint); the reverse with the full-length helmeted figure of Britannia, a standard in her left hand, her right arm extended with a laurel wreath, her shield and trident on the ground behind her, soldiers marching in a landscape beyond, warships near the coast beyond, signed ‘G. W. de Saulles’, with the word MEDITERRANEAN scrolled to the right hand inside rim; attributed on the edge to 4944 PTE J. HUGHES, W. YORK: REGT: on correct ribbon. Note pawn brokers initials to both faces. 855 medals were awarded to the battalion for service.