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Medal, long service   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Royal Mint; Pistrucci, Benedetto
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Medal, long service
Object type Classification: 76796
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English: Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (VR) Medal awarded to 3287 Gnr Archibald Annett, 11th Brigade, Royal Artillery. silver medal; swivel suspender; ribbon missing obverse- trophy of arms above exergue with royal coat of arms at centre reverse- inscription in five lines- FOR - LONG SERVICE - AND - GOOD CONDUCT named on edge- 3287. GUNR. A. ANNETT. 11TH BDE. R.A.
Date Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)-English reign; New Zealand Wars-wars; (1855); 1860s
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diameter: 36mm
width: 32mm

notes: ribbon
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1978.85
Place of creation United Kingdom
Exhibition history Display: 2C
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1978.85, N1595
Notes Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (VR) Medal awarded to 269 Gnr Archibald Annett, C Bty, 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery. Archibald Annett was born in the parish of Ballymore, County Armagh, Ireland. He enlisted with the Royal Artillery in 1847, and served with the regiment until 1872. He served in South Africa, Crimea (1854-55) and was on garrison duty in Australia before coming to New Zealand, circa 1863. He served in New Zealand with C Battery 4th Brigade between 1863 and 1865, and his medal claim recorded actions at Nukumaru and Waingongoro.He may have had his wife and family with him, as 15 women and 25 children left with the Brigade when it departed on 27th June 1866. Following his discharge from the Royal Artillery in 1872 his family joined him in New Zealand. He died on 1st January 1875 aged 47 years.
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