Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (67577 Gunr. G. W. Butcher No. 7 By. 1st. Bde. C.P. Dn. R.A.) scratch to reverse field, otherwise good very fine £100-140

George William Butcher was born at Ashford, Kent, in 1867 and was employed as a butcher prior to attesting for the Royal Artillery at Dover, Kent, on 8 June 1888. Posted to Burma in September of that year, by November he was in hospital in Mandalay suffering from gonorrhoea. Recovering, he saw active service with No. 7 Battery, 1st Brigade, Central Provinces Division, and after just over a year’s operational service retuned home in December 1889. Based at Dover Castle, he was discharged due to further ongoing medical complications on 24 March 1891, after 2 years and 290 days’ service.