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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 875

Army Temperance Association: India, 6 Year Medal (Bateson Shield) (3), one with Frontier 1897-8 clasp, silver (ATAI.6), good very fine Army Temperance Association: India, 7 Year Medal (Havelock Cross) (4), one with ´Fidelity´ top riband bar, one with South Africa clasp, silver (ATAI.7), good very fine Army Temperance Association: India, 8 Year Medal (2), silver (Hallmarks for London 1902 and 1906), with top riband bar (ATAI.8), nearly extremely fine Army Temperance Association: India, 10 Year Medal (Roberts Medal), silver (ATAI.10), extremely fine (10) Estimate £ 40-50 The Bateson Shield was introduced in 1893 to replace the 6 year award bar on the 5 year medal, because in the days of the 7-year Short Service enlistments this award would be the last that many men would receive, and a medal was considered more appropriate than a bar. It is named after the Reverend J.H. Bateson, a Methodist minister involved with Army Temperance in India. The Havelock Cross for 7 years´´ abstinence is named after Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. (1795-1857), the Hero of Lucknow, who, when a Lieutenant in the 13th Foot, founded a temperance club in Rangoon in 1823, whose members were dubbed ´´Havelock´´s Saints´´. On becoming adjutant in 1839 he formed the first Regimental Temperance Society The Roberts Medal for 10 years´´ abstinence is named after Field Marshal The Earl Roberts of Kandahar, V.C., K.G., K.P., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. (1832-1914), who, when Commander in Chief, India, persuaded the various religious and regimental societies to combine their efforts against drunkenness and promote abstinence with the formation of the Army Temperance Association, India, which thus replaced the Soldiers´´ Total Abstinence Association in India and the Colonies east of Aden.

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