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

№ 444

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£250

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Captain F. F. Gibbons, 2/11th Regt.) Good very fine £250-300

Frederic Fitzroy Gibbons was born at Barbados, West Indies, on 12 November 1841. He was appointed Ensign in the 11th Foot in July 1860, became Lieutenant in August 1864, and Captain in July 1871. He served abroad at at the Cape, 1861 to 1865, and again, 1866 to 1867, in China, 1865 to 1866, and in India from 1877, where he served with the Southern Afghanistan Field Force from July 1880 to April 1881. The remainder of his service was at Home, where he became Major in July 1881 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1888. Sold with copy service record.