Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 53

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£420

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Ltt. C. McM. Davis, 18th Bl. Infy.) extremely fine £220-260

Charles McMullin Davis was born on 17 December 1868, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred T. Davis, late Bengal Army. After service in the Militia he was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment on 10 November 1888 and promoted to Lieutenant in February 1891. Posted to the Indian Staff Corps in April 1891, he served with the 18th Bengal Native Infantry, 1891-94 and with the 24th Native Infantry, 1894-95. He died at Delhi on 16 December 1895.