Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2009

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 406

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25 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£170

Efficiency Medal (2), G.V.R., India, with Second Award Clasp (Cpl. C. Thornton, B.N. Ry. Bn., A.F.I.); another, with Second and Third Award Clasps (Pte. D. J. Finnigan, 2 B.B. & C.I. Ry. R., A.F.I.) good very fine (2) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Corporal C. A. Thorn, Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion, A.F.I., was awarded the Efficiency Medal (India), notified in I.A.O. 1000 of November 1936. As a Company Sergeant-Major he was awarded the clasp, published in I.A.O. 5/AP of August 1943.

Private D. J. Finnigan, 2nd Battalion Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment, A.F.I., was awarded the Efficiency Medal (India) and clasp, notified in I.A.O. 696 of December 1933. In the same rank he was awarded the second clasp, published in I.A.O. 794 of September 1936. With some copied research.