Date
Instituted: 1902.
Description: The obverse of this medal bears the head of the reigning
monarch while the reverse has the standing figure Britannia with
the British lion next to her. The suspender is plain and straight.
Metal: Silver or bronze.
Size: 36mm.
Clasps: 'N. NIGERIA', 'N. NIGERIA 1902', 'N. NIGERIA 1903', 'N. NIGERIA
1903-04', 'N. NIGERIA 1904', 'N. NIGERIA 1906', 'S. NIGERIA', 'S.
NIGERIA 1902', 'S. NIGERIA 1902-03', 'S. NIGERIA 1903', 'S. NIGERIA
1903-04', 'S. NIGERIA 1904', 'S. NIGERIA 1904-05', 'S. NIGERIA 1905',
'S. NIGERIA 1905-06', 'NIGERIA 1918', 'EAST AFRICA 1902', 'EAST
AFRICA 1904', 'EAST AFRICA 1905', 'EAST AFRICA 1906', 'EAST AFRICA
1913', 'EAST AFRICA 1913-14', 'EAST AFRICA 1914', 'EAST AFRICA 1915',
'EAST AFRICA 1918', 'WEST AFRICA 1906', WEST AFRICA 1908', 'WEST
AFRICA 1909-10', 'SOMALILAND 1901', 'SOMALILAND 1902-04', 'SOMALILAND
1908-10', 'SOMALILAND 1920', 'JIDBALLI', 'UGANDA 1900', 'B.C.A.
1899-1900', 'JUBALAND', 'JUBALAND 1917-18', 'GAMBIA', 'ARO 1901-1902',
LANGO 1901', 'KISSI 1905', 'NANDI 1905-06', 'SHIMBER BERRIS 1914-15',
'NYASALAND 1915' and 'KENYA'.
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Naming: Impressed
capital letters.
Comments: This medal replaced the East and West Africa Medal and
remained in use for 54 years. Silver medals went to combatants while
some transport personnel received bronze medals in Northern Nigeria
and Somaliland between 1902 and 1908. The last issue of this medal
was made for the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in 1956.
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