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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 493

Army Temperance Association: India, 6 Month Medal (Crookshank Cross) (2), silvered-bronze (ATAI.1), nearly very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 1 Year Medal (2), silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1912 on one) (ATAI.2), good very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 1 Year Medal, silver, with 2 Year award 'Fidelity' top riband bar (ATAI.2), good very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 3 Year Medal, silver (ATAI.3), good very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 3 Year Medal, with 4 Year award 'Excelsior' top riband bar, silver (ATAI.3), of local Indian manufacture, nearly very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 5 Year Medal (2), silver and enamel (ATAI.5), very fine or better

Army Temperance Association: India, 5 Year Medal, with 'Frontier-1897-8' riband bar, silver and enamel (ATAI.5), very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 6 Year Medal (Bateson Shield) (2), silver (ATAI.6), very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 7 Year Medal (Havelock Cross), silver (ATAI.7), good very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 8 Year Medal (3), silver and silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1908 and 1912 on two, third marked 'Silver'), two with top riband bar (ATAI.8), gilding rubbed from centre on first, otherwise nearly extremely fine

Army Temperance Association: India, 12 Year Medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1916) and enamel (ATAI.11), nearly extremely fine

Army Temperance Association: India, Association Medal, silver (ATAI.14), very fine

Army Temperance Association: India, Queen Victoria Commemorative Medal (2), silver (ATAI.15), nearly very fine or better (20)

The Crookshank Cross for 6 months' abstinence is named after George Cruickshank [sic] (1792-1878), an illustrator of political and social satirical caricatures. In 1860 he raised a corps of Temperance Rifle Volunteers, which became the 24th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps (Havelock's Own) in 1861.

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.

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