Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (Major F. H. Thorndike, 2d Bn. R. Suss. R.) nearly extremely fine
£200-250

Francis Henry Thorndike was born on 27 November 1852. Appointed an Ensign with the 107th Foot, from the Somerset Militia, in 1874; appointed Lieutenant, Instructor of Musketry with the same regiment, February-July 1880. Promoted to Captain in the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1880 and attained the rank of Major in 1884. Major Thorndike died in 1888. With some copied research and a copied group photograph.