Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Captain Elwin Frank Adams Humphrys, Calcutta Presidency Battalion, Auxiliary Force India and Indian Army Reserve of Officers

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt., I.A.R.O.) initials officially re-impressed; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Coy-Sgt-Maj, Cal. Pres. Bn. A.F.I.) impressed naming, light scratches and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (2) £140-180

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

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Elwin Frank Adams Humphreys served in the ranks of the Volunteers some 10 years prior to the Great War. During the War he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry in the I.A.R.O., with seniority of 19 August 1918. At the end of the war he was Assistant Commandant, on the Technical Recruiting Staff at 128 Railway Training Camp at Puri. He then took part in the Third Afghan War where he served as a Captain. Continuing his Volunteer service, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal in 1924 when ranked as Company Sergeant-Major of the Calcutta Presidency Battalion A.F.(I), the award published in I.A.O. 359 of May 1924. With copied research.