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Victoria Cross

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1900

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3640361

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National Medal Collection

Victoria Cross
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1900

Place:

Canada; Great Britain

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 medal / médaille : bronze ; NA gr
Support 40.000 x 36.000 mm

Language of material:

no language

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This medal record was previously identified as being mfn: 07974., This medal has been given the medal file number: 07973 and record corrected to show this. This was confirmed during consultation with a medal expert, March 21, 2003., This medal awarded to Sgt./Major Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Royal North West Mounted Police of Battleford, Saskatchewan for action of Wolve Spruit July 5, 1900, during the Boer War. See medals catalogue card FA.

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Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Imperial Adventure: Canadians in the South African War (1899-1902). Curator: J.L. Granatstein, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario; 1999.06.10-2003.01.31., Exhibition Title: Displays of Medals, Gallery of Valour. Curator: Burt Reed, Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta; 1991.08.01-1992.01.31.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: obverse: FOR VALOUR, Inscription: reverse: [added 5[^TH].. / JULY / 1900.], Inscription: edge: no inscription, Inscription: attachment: [added SERGEANT A. H. L. RICHARDSON, / LORD STRATHCONA'S CORP.] ; with purple ribbon (torn and segment detached)

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C-080636 : obverse
Subject heading:

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emblem

reward
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1986-079 X PIC
07973
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Object

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Medals 7973

[Consultation 90 Open]

Item no. assigned by LAC 7973

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1986-079 X PIC] C-080636

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-79-7973
Copyright: Expired

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