East and West Africa Medal, with bar for Witu 1890, awarded to
PO1 H. Gardner, 1892 Obverse, a bust of Queen Victoria with
crown and veil Reverse, a scene of bush fighting around a tree
with a fallen African to the fore East and West Africa Medal,
1892 Peace-keeping operations in the British possessions in
Africa, as anywhere else, required a large number of small
campaigns, several of which, from 1892 until 1900, were
considered to merit this medal, which in terms of design is a
continuation of the Ashantee War Medal. Recipients who held that
medal already were therefore awarded only extra clasps. Witu was
a small state in what is now Kenya. Established in 1858 as a
colony of the Sultanate of Pate, it rapidly became threatened by
the British-supported island Sultanante of Zanzibar. In 1885
therefore a pact with the growing German interests in East
Africa saw Witu become a German Protectorate, defended by the
German Tana Company. In 1890 however the Heligoland-Zanzibar
Treaty between Britain and Germany saw t