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№ 143 x

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16 November 2009

Hammer Price:
£380

Four: Temporary Overseer G. P. Singh, Military Engineer Services, late Mesopotamian Railways

British War and Victory Medals (43637 Sub-Ovsr., Meso. Rys.) B.W.M. with correction to unit and minor edge bruise; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (23318 S. Overseer Pakhar Singh, Works Dte.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Ty. Overseer, M.E.S.) very fine and better (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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G. Pakhar Singh was a civilian worker in the Indian Army. During the Great War he served as a Sub-Overseer in the Mesopotamian Railways; during the Iraq campaign he held the same position in the Works Directorate, and in the Burma campaign was a Temporary Overseer in the Military Engineer Services.