Ashantee Medal

Ashantee Medal

Obverse and reverse of the medal
Awarded by UK
Type Campaign medal
Eligibility British, Colonial and native forces
Awarded for Campaign Service
Campaign Third Anglo-Ashanti War
Description Silver, 36.5mm diameter
Clasps Coomassie
Statistics
Established 1 June 1874
Related Ashanti Star (1896)
Ashanti Medal (1901)

Ribbon bar of the medal


The Ashantee Medal is a British campaign medal instituted on 1 June 1874 for award to British, Colonial and allied native forces deployed against the army of the Ashanti King Koffee Kalkalli, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.[1]

Description

Obverse: the diademed, veiled head of Queen Victoria and the inscription VICTORIA REGINA.

Reverse: a scene of bush fighting between British and Ashanti, as inspired by the campaign.

Ribbon: yellow with black edges and two narrow black central stripes.

Clasps

COOMASSIE: awarded to those present at Amoaful and the capture of the capital, or those protecting the lines communication north of the Prah river.


References

  1. ↑ North East Medals, Ashantee Medal 1873 - 1874, accessed 28 December 2010.
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