Orders, Decorations and Medals

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), V.R. (Sergt. R. M. Thompson, Ghazipore Light Horse) engraved naming, suspension refitted and slack, edge bruising, about very fine £50-70

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

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Richard Michael Thompson was born on 17 February 1854. He spent his working life in India with the Public Works Department. He joined the Public Works Department in 1872 as an Assistant Master at the Thomason Civil Engineering College at Rurki. In October 1880 in the Upper Subordinate Establishment of the N.W. Province and Oudh in the Punjab, he was appointed a Supernumerary Supervisor 1st Grade working in the Simla Architectural Division. He was subsequently appointed to the Allahabad and then Benares Divisions. Being appointed an Assistant Engineer 1st Grade in January 1904 working in the Aligarh Special Sub-Division, he retired in February 1909. As a Trooper in the Ghazipore Light Horse, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, published in General Orders 1271 of November 1896 and corrected in G.O. 568 of May 1897. With copied research.