Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Signalman S. Eves, Royal Signals, late Royal Engineers

India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 (1859140 Sig. S. Eves, R.S.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (1859140 Sig. S. Eves, R.S.), together with a pair of related miniature dress medals, neatly renamed in engraved capitals, very fine or better (4) £30-50

Sydney James Eves was born in Earls Court, London in March 1901 and originally enlisted in the Royal Engineers in January 1920. Embarked for India in June of the following year - and consequently too late to have participated in the Third Afghan War - he transferred to the Royal Signals in July 1921 and returned to the U.K. in January 1926, when he was placed on the Army Reserve. Finally discharged in January 1932, he died in Bushey, Hertfordshire in January 1961; sold with a file of family research, including copied service record which shows no evidence of service in the Iraq operations.