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6 & 7 December 2017

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Lot

№ 549

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6 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£500

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (4343 Pvt H. A. Dunk Tel Deptt.) good very fine, scarce to unit £500-700

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2001.

62 Tibet Medals issued to Military Telegraphists, including five with the clasp for Gyantse.

H. A. Dunk was seconded from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment to the Telegraph Department, for service in Tibet, one of five men of this regiment who joined the expedition from their station at Sitapur, India (Military Telegraphists with the Tibet Mission 1903-1904, by Alan Harfield, O.M.R.S. Journal, Winter 1990 refers).