Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 162

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£170

East and West Africa 1887-1900, no clasp, for Mwele 1895-6 (33 Gnr. Pir Bakhsh, 1st Kohat Mtn. Bty.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £60-80

One Naik and ten gunner volunteers from Indian mountain batteries joined the ad hoc Indian Contingent raised for service in East Africa 1895-98. Confirmed on the medal roll and sold with relevant article from the O.M.R.S. Journal concerning this contingent.