WAR MEDALS IN THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. S73 
Of the China medals there are two specimens, one with clasps for 
“ Pekin ” and “ Taku Forts,” one with clasp for “Pekin” alone. These 
are for the 1857-60 wars, and not the first China War of 1840, which 
received a similar medal, but without any clasps. 
The Institution has two specimens of the South African medal 
with clasps for “ 78-79 ” and “ 77-8-9.” This medal was first given in 
the fifties for many years of Kaffir Wars without a clasp. In the cam¬ 
paigns of 77-8-9 only one clasp was granted, bearing the years as 
the case might be, a little hard on those who went through the whole 
thing. 
This closes the list of actual British war medals in the Institution 
Museum, but there is also the hexagonal medal for ‘Arctic discoveries,” 
and the old and new patterns of the Long Service and Good Conduct 
medal, and also the corresponding naval medal, called in the Navy 
the “ Long Conduct ” medal! 
The collection includes also a replica of Cromwell’s medal to his 
troops for the Battle of Dunbar. 
In addition to all these medals there are many bronze and a few 
silver foreign war medals and decorations, chiefly Prussian and 
Russian and not of very great interest to English folk in general. 
These with many of the British medals were presented to the Insti¬ 
tution by Colonel N. L. Walford, R.A. 
It will be noticed that the Institution collection is mot at all a 
complete one, many famous medals being unrepresented, and is rather 
the result of presentations from various officers, than of an intention 
to collect specimens of all British medals, though the Institution is 
always on the look out for notable medals bestowed on gunners, as 
in the case of Gunner Rolland’s medal that may come into the market. 
The Institution medal collection would be a very suitable sanctuary 
for those who wish to place heirlooms of this kind m safety. 
Though the collection is not complete, it contains some very rare 
ones commanding very high prices as curios, most especially the eight 
medals of John Company, some of which are now quite unobtainable, 
while Gunner Rolland’s medal with 13 clasps is very valuable. 
The reason the Company’s medals are so scarce, is that having 
been given largely to Native troops, they were all melted down in the 
bad famines in by-gone days in Bengal and Madras, not so much 
by the recipient who valued them, as by their widows and children in 
time of need. 
A LIST OF THE MEDALS IN THE 
ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
THE ROBE COLLECTION. 
1. General officer’s gold Peninsula cross.—clasp “ Busaco.” 
2. Gold medal for Roleia, Vimiera and Talavera. 
3. „ „ for Nivelle.—clasp “ Nive.” 
4. Collar and badge of a Knight Commander of the Bath. 
5. Cross and star of a Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover. 
6. Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal. 
7. Silver Medal for Waterloo. 
