Africa General Service Medal 1902-56, with clasp, 'Gambia', awarded to Drummer H Graham, 3rd Battalion, West India Regiment

Circular, silver campaign medal with, on the obverse, a portrait of King Edward VII facing left, with the Latin inscription, 'Edwardvs VII Rex Imperator' (Edward VII King Emperor). On the reverse, designed by George de Saulles, a figure of Britannia, a lion at her feet, holds a palm branch and scroll, symbols of peace and law, in one hand and a trident in the other, with the inscription, 'Africa' in the exergue below. The medal ribbon is yellow with two narrow green stripes towards the centre, and edged in black, with a single campaign clasp inscribed 'Gambia'.

The 'Gambia' clasp was awarded to personnel who took part in a punitive expedition in Gambia, West Africa, from January to March 1901. The Gambia Field Force was led by Lieutenant-Colonel H E Brake. Brake's report on the expedition dated 31 March 1901 was published in 'The London Gazette' 10 September 1901. The expedition was launched after two 'Travelling Commissioners' were murdered at Sankandi in the Kiang District. With British forces occupied in the 4th Ashanti War the lack of any response from British authorities led, according to Brake, to a 'dangerous spirit of disaffection' and 'disloyal feeling'. The expedition which included collaboration with French colonial forces was deemed successful with the town of Dumbutu captured and all the 'chief agitators' arrested.