Orders, Decorations and Medals

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Trpr. J. Turner, N. Beng. M. Rif., (A.F.I.)) impressed naming, initial and part of surname re-impressed, good 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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J. Turner served in the Volunteers. In 1929 he was a Trooper in the Light Motor Patrol, being in the H.Q. Section at Binnaguri, having joined in August 1921. As a Trooper in the Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, published in I.A.O. 656 of October 1930. In civilian life he was a Superintendent with the Empire of India Company Ltd. With copied research.