Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant C. Rice, Dorsetshire Regiment

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (435 Bd. Sgt. C. Rice. 1st. Bn. Dorset Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (435 Sgt. of Band C. Rice, Dorset: Regt.) small area of erasure before number, initial officially corrected; Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, ‘Ind: Imp:’ (435. Sjt. C. Rice. Dorset. R.) light contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £300-360

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Musicians formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Charles Rice was born in London in 1869 and attested for the Dorsetshire Regiment at Aldershot on 10 May 1883. He was promoted Corporal on 27 February 1892, and Band Sergeant on 14 October 1893, and served with the Regiment in India from 27 September 1893 until 5 April 1904, taking part in the Tirah Expedition of 1897-98. He was discharged on 9 May 1904, after 21 years’ service, and was awarded the Meritorious Service medal with annuity by Army Order 47 in March 1944.