Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant H. A. E. Wright, Lucknow Rifles, late Calcutta Battalion Indian Defence Force

British War Medal 1914-20 (524 Sgt., 5 Cal. Bn. I.D.F.); Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R., (Sgt., Lucknow A.F.I.) impressed naming; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., India (Sjt., Lucknow Rif., A.F.I.) mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (3) £130-160

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

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H. A. E. Wright was employed by the Public Works Department. During the Great War he served in the 5th Calcutta Battalion, I.D.F. He was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal as a Sergeant in the Lucknow Auxiliary Force, listed in I.A.O. 832 of November 1927. He was further awarded the Efficiency Medal (India) as a Serjeant in the Lucknow Rifles, A.F.I., notified in I.A.O. 184 of March 1936. With copied research.