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

№ 211

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£800

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (6062 Pte. F. Arnold, Tel. Deptt.) initial corrected, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £400-500

62 Tibet Medals issued to Military Telegraphists, including five with the clasp for Gyantse.

6062 Private F. Arnold, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment is confirmed on the roll of Military Telegraphists for the Tibet campaign, one of five men of this regiment who joined the expedition from their station at Jhansi, India (Ref
Military Telegraphists with the Tibet Mission 1903-1904, by Alan Harfield, OMRS Journal, Winter 1990).