Orders, Decorations and Medals

Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (5235 Cpl. F. Charles, Tel. Deptt.) nearly very fine and very rare £700-800

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

5235 Corporal F. Charles, 2nd Royal Sussex 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 Sitapur, India. Corporal Charles was the only one to qualify for the clasp Gyantse (Ref Military Telegraphists with the Tibet Mission 1903-1904, by Alan Harfield, OMRS Journal, Winter 1990).