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{{Infobox military award
|name= Java Medal
|image= [[File:Java Medal, 1811.jpg|160px]]
|caption= Obverse of the medal depicted on a [[cigarette card]]
|presenter=[[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|30px]] the Honourable [[East India Company]] (HEIC)
|type= [[Campaign medal]]
|eligibility= HEIC forces
|awarded_for= Campaign service
|campaign= [[Invasion of Java (1811)|Java 1811]]
|status=
|description=
|clasps= None
|established= 1812
|total_awarded=133 gold and 6,519 silver medals
|image2= [[File:Yellow cord suspension for early medals of the HEIC.png|75px]]
|caption2=Suspension cord for the medal
}}
The '''Java Medal''' is a [[campaign medal]] awarded by the [[Governor-General of India]] to soldiers of the [[Presidency armies|armies of the Honourable East India Company]] (HEIC) who participated in the [[Invasion of Java (1811)|Invasion of Java]] in August and September 1811, during the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref name=Steward>{{cite book|last1=Steward|first1=William Augustus|title=War Medals and Their History|date=1915|publisher=Stanley Paul & Co.|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/warmedalstheirhi00stewrich/page/42 42]|url=https://archive.org/details/warmedalstheirhi00stewrich|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref>

==Criteria==
The medal was authorised in February 1812 by [[Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto|Lord Minto]], the [[Governor-General of India]], who had accompanied the expedition to Java.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mayo|first1=John Horsley|title= Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Volume 1|date=1897|publisher= A. Constable & Co|page=[https://archive.org/details/medalsdecoration01mayouoft/page/158 158]|url=https://archive.org/details/medalsdecoration01mayouoft|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref> It was awarded to more senior officers in gold (133 awarded) and other ranks in silver (6,519 awarded).<ref name=Joslin>{{Cite book|author=Joslin, Litherland and Simpkin.|title=British Battles and Medals.|page=32. Published Spink, London. 1988}}</ref> Recipients of the silver medal included both native Indian (5,761 recipients) and European (about 750 recipients) soldiers in HEIC service.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Narbeth|first1=Colin|title=Collecting Military Medals: A Beginner's Guide|date=1971|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0718890094|page=21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6vlQEDyC9MC&q=JAVA+MEDAL&pg=PA21|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref>

Members of the [[British Army]] and [[Royal Navy]] present did not receive the medal. Army officers of the rank of Major and above qualified for the [[Army Gold Medal]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16929|pages=1730–1731|date=27 August 1814}}</ref> while surviving British officers, soldiers and sailors qualified for either the [[Military General Service Medal|Military]] or [[Naval General Service Medal (1847)|Naval General Service Medal]] with clasp 'Java', when these medals was established in 1847.<ref name=Steward/>

==Description==
The medal was struck at the [[India Government Mint, Kolkata|Calcutta Mint]]<ref name=OMRS>Dr K. G. Klietmann. ''The Medal for Java of the H.E.I.C. of 1811''. Orders & Medals Research Society Journal, Winter 1976, pages 208-210.</ref> in gold and in silver. Both types were {{convert|1.9|in|mm}} in diameter<ref name=Mussell>{{Cite book|author=John Mussell (ed).|title=Medal Yearbook 2015.|page=120. Token Publishing Ltd. Honiton, Devon}}</ref> with the following design:<ref name=Joslin/> 
The obverse depicts the storming of Fort Cornelis, which British and HEIC troops captured on 26 August 1811, with the word ''CORNELIS'' above. The reverse has the [[Persian language|Persian]] inscription ''This medal was conferred in commemoration of the bravery and courage exhibited by the Sepoys of the English Company in the capture of the Kingdom of Java, in the [[Hijri year]] 1228'' with, around the edge, the English wording ''JAVA CONQUERED XXVI AUGUST MDCCCXI''. The medal was issued unnamed. The suspension is a flattened loop, pinned at the base, through which passes a suspension cord allowing the medal to be worn around the neck.

The Hijri year 1228 cited on the medal's reverse commenced on 4 January 1813. This is the year the medals were minted, not the year of the campaign, and appears to be an error.<ref name=OMRS/>

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Campaign medals of the Honourable East India Company}}
[[Category:British campaign medals]]
[[Category:Medals of the Honourable East India Company]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1811]]
[[Category:British military medals of the Napoleonic Wars]]
[[Category:Dutch East Indies]]

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