East and West Africa Medal

East and West Africa Medal
Obverse and reverse of the medal
Awarded by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	British forces.
Awarded for	Campaign service.
Campaign(s)	East and West Africa 1887-1900
Clasps	1887-8 Witu 1890 1891-2 1892 Witu August 1893 Liwondi 1893 Juba River 1893 Lake Nyassa 1893 1893-94 Gambia 1894 Benin River 1894 Brass River 1895 1896-98 Niger 1897 Benin 1897 Dawita 1897 1897-98 1898 Sierra Leone 1898-99 1899 1900
Ribbon: Yellow with black edges and 2 dark green stripes

The East and West Africa Medal was a campaign medal approved for issue to officers and men of the British armed forces in East and West Africa. The obverse held a left-facing portrait of Queen Victoria with the inscription "VICTORIA REGINA". The reverse held and image of British soldiers fighting Africans, an image also used on the reverses of the Ashantee Medal and the Central Africa Medal. The medal was issued in silver to officers and men of the British forces and in bronze to native porters. There are 21 clasps for this medal and an alternative design for those who served on the Mwele campaign. This alternative design was simply the additional imprinting of "MWELE" next to the claw of the medal.