Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. C. Giffard, 1st Bn. North’n Regt.) minor test mark on rim, otherwise extremely fine £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Cecil Lerrier Giffard was born on 22 February 1868. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant into the 3rd Royal Guernsey Militia on 14 January 1888, he transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment on 21 December 1889, becoming Lieutenant in October 1892. He was killed at Camp Maidan on 6 November 1897, during the Tirah campaign, ‘shot dead while sitting at dinner about 7 p.m.’, a casualty of the shooting into camp at night by the enemy. A memorial tablet was erected by his mother at St Sampson’s Church,, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Sold with further details including a photograph of his memorial with his sword suspensded below.