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THE COLLECTION OF WAR MEDALS IN THE 
ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
BY 
CAPTAIN G. F. MACMUNN, D.S.O., R.A. 
O LD war medals being a hobby of mine, I spent an afternoon a 
few weeks ago looking over the medals in the R.A. Institution and 
was much struck with the extremely interesting and in many cases 
rare medals in the Museum. Major Boileau was kind enough to allow 
me to overhaul them, and they afforded me so much pleasure, that an 
account of them and the old world memories they recall may be of 
interest to readers of the “ Proceedings.” The gem of course is the 
special Robe collection prsented by Miss Vimiera Robe, being the 
various medals and orders of her father, Colonel Sir William Robe, 
K.C.B., K.C.H., K.T.Si., R.A., and brother, Lieutenant William Living¬ 
stone Robe, R.H.A. They include a General officers gold Peninsula 
cross, with clasp “ Busaco,” a gold medal for Vimiera, a gold medal 
with clasp for Nive, the collar and badge of the Bath, the cross and 
star of the Guelphic Order of Hanover, and a Waterloo medal. These 
orders rightly occupy a special case and place of honour by themeslves. 
The main collection in the large case, consists of presentations by 
various officers and purchases of notable regimental medals by the 
Institution. 
These are now arranged more or less chronologically and the finest 
group of twelve medals collected by Captain Buckle of the Bengal 
Artillery to illustrate his “ Memoir of the Services of the Bengal 
Artillery,” and were presented to the Institution by his son, then 
Lieutenant Buckle, R.A. They consist of eight of the quaint 
silver medals presented by “John Company” to its own troops, 
and are for services in Java, 1811, Bourbon, and the Mauritius, 
1809-10, Mysore, 1791 - 2, Ceylon, 1795-6, Egypt, 1801, Capture 
of Seringapatam, 1799, Wellesley’s Capture of Ahmednagar, 1803 
(this is a doubtful one which I hope to verify later, it being almost 
effaced),* and lastly a very fine English struck medal for the 1st Bur¬ 
mese war of 1824-6. Most of these medals are a trifle larger than a 
crown piece, and portray on the obverse various scenes in the cam¬ 
paigns for which they were bestowed, with interesting figures of old 
* The descriptive card placed in the case with the Buckle collection states that this medal is 
supposed to he given for the capture of Ahmedabad in 1780.—Secretary B..A.I. 
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