Medal Collection (page 19)

Hussein Abni Pasha, c1906, (1907). Hussein Abni Pasha (1819-1876), influential military leader, holding positions; General governor of Smyrna in 1872

Omar Pasha, c1906, (1907). Omar Latas (Omar Pasha) (1806?1871), Ottoman general, governor and notable commander in the Crimean War, where he won outstanding victories at Silistra and Eupatoria

Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Roberts, British soldier, c1880 (1883). From William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries, Vol. III, 1852-1860, by Thomas Archer, F.R.H.S

Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, British soldier, 1882 (1883). From William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries, Vol. III, 1852-1860, by Thomas Archer, F.R.H.S

Louis XV, 1748. Artist: Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Louis XV, 1748. Louis XV (1710-1774), Bourbon King of France from 1st September 1715 to 10th May 1774. Held at the Musee du Louvre, Paris

Queen Victoria presenting medals to the Guards after the Crimean War, 1856 (1906). Artist: W Bunney
Queen Victoria presenting medals to the Guards after the Crimean War, 1856 (1906). From Cassells History of England, Vol. VI. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1906]

Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, 1897. After a portrait by Basire for Old and New London Vol 111 by Edward Walford. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, 1897]

His Late Majesty King George V, 1936. From The Illustrated London News: Record of the Lying-in-State and Funeral of his late Majesty King George V, Volume 188

H. M. Queen Mary, 1910 (1935). Artist: Sir William Llewellyn
H.M. Queen Mary, 1910 (1935). After the painting by Sir William Llewellyn, P.R.A. From Modern Masterpieces Part 20. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1935]

2 - Otto Van Bismarck At Four Stages Of His Career, 1907. Otto Van Bismarck as Envoy at the German Diet in 1858. Otto Edward Leopold

King Edward VII in the first year of his reign, 1901 (1910). Artist: Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples
King Edward VII in the first year of his reign, 1901 (1910). From Edward VII: His Life and Times, Volume I edited by Sir Richard Holmes, K.C.V.O. [The Amalgated Press, Ltd. London, 1910]

The Duke of York and Prince Henry welcoming the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth, 1925
The Duke of York (later King George VI) and Prince Henry welcoming their brother the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) home at Portsmouth quayside, after his Imperial Tour of 1925

The Earl of Harewood, 1935. Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, husband of Mary, Princess Royal, the daughter of King George V

The Duke of Gloucester in the uniform of a captain of the 10th Royal Hussars, 1935. Ardath cigarette card, from a series of 50 commemorating the Silver Jubilee of King George V, 1935

The Duke of York at the time of his wedding, 1923 (1935). Ardath cigarette card, from a series of 50 commemorating the Silver Jubilee of King George V, 1935

HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught, 1937
Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938), 1937. He was a grandson of Queen Victoria and served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1920 to 1924

Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, (1819-1870), English naval captain and inventor, 1893
Captain Cowper Phipps Coles (1819-1870), English naval captain and inventor, 1893. From The Pictorial Treasury of Famous Men and Famous Deeds published by Frederick Warne and Co

HM King George VI (1895-1952), 1937. Shown wearing the uniform of a Colonel of the Scots Guards. Card No 1 of 48 from Coronation Souvenir cigarette cards produced for Tournament Cigarettes

Hiram Stevens Maxim, (1840-1916). American-born British inventor and engineer, 1894-1907
Hiram Stevens Maxim, (1840-1916). American-born British inventor and engineer, Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun in 1884

Major General Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC, KCB, British soldier, 1884
Major General Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC, KCB British soldier, 1884. Major General Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC, KCB, British soldier, 1883

Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake (1855-1940), British Indian Army, 1917
Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake (1855-1940), senior commander of the British Indian Army, serving during World War I, 1917

General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle (1856-1934), British Army General during World War I, 1917. Rundle also fought in the Zulu War in 1879

General Pierre Auguste Roques (1856-1920), French general and creator of the French air force, 1917. From Wills Cigarettes Allied Army Leaders cigarette card series, 1917

General Maurice Sarrail (1856-1929), Allied commander in Greece during World War I, 1917. Sarrail (1856-1929) commanded the French 3rd Army on the Western Front from August 1914

Nicholas I (1841-1921), King of Montenegro, 1917
Nicholas I (1841-1921) became the only King of Montenegro in 1910, reigning until 1918, after which his country was annexed by Serbia as a province of the newly founded Kingdom of the Serbs

Kamio Mitsuomi, 1st Baron (1856-1927), general in the Imperial Japanese Army, 1917. Mitsuomi commanded the Allied land forces during the Siege of Tsingtao in World War I

Basil Zottu (1853-1916), Romanian politician and general, 1917. From Wills Cigarettes Allied Army Leaders cigarette card series, 1917

Ferdinand I (1865-1927), King of Romania, 1917. From Wills Cigarettes Allied Army Leaders cigarette card series, 1917

Radomir Putnik (1847-1917), Serbian Field Marshal, 1917
Radomir Putnik (1847-1917), Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War, 1917

General Platon Lechitsky (1856-1921), Russian commander in the First World War, 1917. From Wills Cigarettes Allied Army Leaders cigarette card series, 1917

Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov (1853-1926) Russian general, 1917. From Wills Cigarettes Allied Army Leaders cigarette card series, 1917

Prince Louis of Battenberg, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, c1914. Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg

Sir Robert Napier (1791-1876), Lord Napier of Magdala, 1896
Sir Robert Napier (1791-1876), Lord Napier of Magdala, 1875. Lord Napier of Magdala. Napier was commissioned in the Bengal engineers in 1826

King Edward VII, (Albert Edward, 1841-1910), 1904. Artist: Valentine & Sons Ltd
King Edward VII (Albert Edward, 1841-1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and Emperor of India

Enrique Dupuy de Lome, (1851-1904), 1920s
Enrique Dupuy de Lome, was born in Valencia in 1857 and was Minister of Spain in the United States in 1898, shortly before the blasting of Maine

Arsenio Martinez Campos, (born 1821), c1910
General Arsenio Martiner Campos, born in Segovia in 1821, was twice a Governor of Cuba and worked in the East in 1869. Returned in 1876 with twenty thousand soldiers achieving the Peace of the Zanjon

Jose Gutierrez, (1809-1895), 1920s
General Jose Gutierrez de la Concha, born in Argentina in 1809 and ruled Cuba three times; in 1850, 1854 and 1875; imprisoned and executed Narciso Lopez and Aguey and Pinto and others. He died 1895

Candido Pieltain, (1833-1888), 1920s
General Candido Pieltain, born in Gijon (Spain) 1833. Secretly issued a document on 10th September 1873 instructing the imprisionment of those who surrendered to be shot and reported as dead

Conde de Valmaseda Blas Villate, (1824-1882), 1920s
Conde de Valmaseda Blas Villate, born in the province of Vizcaya in 1824 and was three times Governor of Cuba (in 1867, 1870, 875), fought the Cubans

Daniel Sickles, (1819-1914), 1920s
General Daniel Sickles, born in New York in 1825, became a general during the war of secession (American Civil War), and was appointed ambassador to The United States in Madrid in 1869

Miguel Tacon, (1775-1855), 1920s
General Miguel Tacon, born in Cartagena (Spain) in 1775 was captain of Cuba from 1834 to 1838. He was one of the most despotic rulers; expelled in 1834 the great patriot Jose Antonio Saco

Claudio Martinez de Pinillos, (1782-1853), 1920s
Earl of Villanueva, born in Havana in 1782. In 1821 was elected as a mayor and launched a series of good public works, such as the pipelines of Fernando VII

Alejandro Ramirez, (1777-1821), 1920s
Born in Valladolid in 1777, Alejandro Ramirez was the most signnificant governor Cuba has had. In 1816 he was named treasury major of this island and made notable changes such as the tabacco trade

King George V (1865-1936) as Colonel-in-Chief of The Black Watch. King George Frederick Ernest Albert (1865-1936) was a British monarch of the House of Windsor

Count Hayashi Tadasu, (1850-1913), career diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji period Japan, 1906
Count Hayashi Tadasu, (1850-1913), career diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji period Japan. On December 2, 1905 Hayashi became the first Japanese ambassador to the Court of St

Medal struck to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. A print from Franklin Bi-Centennial Celebration, Philadelphia, 1906, The American Philosophical Society

Mary Jane Seacole, (2013). Artist: Karen Humpage
Mary Jane Seacole (1805-1881), was Jamaican-born and of Scottish and Creole descent. Seacole set up what she called the British Hotel behind the lines during the Crimean War

Bishop John Taylor Smith, British clergyman, early 20th century. John Taylor Smith (1860-1938) was Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1897 until 1901 before taking up the post of Chaplain-General

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