Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal F. J. Grice, Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company

1914-15 Star (No. 1517 Pte. F. J. Grice, Vol. Maxim Gun Coy.); British War Medal 1914-20 (42 Cpl. F. S. [sic] Grice. Vol. Mach. Gun. Coy.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (42 Cpl. F. S. [sic] Grice. Vol. M. G. Coy.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (F. J. Grice Survey Party.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, minor contact marks, good very fine (5) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter Duckers.

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Francis Joslyn Grice was born at Bengal in 1887, the son of James and Elizabeth Grice. He was a member of the Mussoorie Rifle Volunteers before serving in the Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company, No. 4 Section, in East Africa during the Great War.

Grice was subsequently employed with the Survey of India, and served with them in the Third Afghan War. He is later recorded as Extra Assistant Superintendent, Survey of India, Assam, at the time of the award of his Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935. He died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1966.

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