Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (12518. Co. S. Maj. J. F. Dukes. R.E.) engraved naming, good very fine £100-£140

James Fraser Dukes was born at Weymouth, Dorset, on 24 March 1860 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Birmingham on his fourteenth birthday, 24 March 1874. He was advanced Company Sergeant Major 1 April 1888 and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 340, 1 April 1892. He was further advanced Quartermaster Sergeant at the Institute of Submarine Mining, Royal Engineers, on 14 December 1897, and was finally discharged on the disbandment of the Submarine Mining section on 4 June 1907, after 33 years ad 73 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers that confirms that this is his sole medallic entitlement.