Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War group of four awarded to Lieutenant A. L. Godden, Eastern Bengal Volunteer Rifles, late Lumsden’s Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (67 Tpr. A. L. Godden, Lumsden’s Horse; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & Colonies), G.V.R. (2nd Lieut. A. L. Godden, E.B. Vol. Rfls.); Indian Volunteer Forces Decoration, G.V.R. (Lt. A. L. Godden, E.B. Coy., A.F.I.) the reverse also hallmarked Birmingham 1927, good very fine (3) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards.

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Prior to the outbreak of the Boer War, Arthur Leigh Godden was an Assistant with the firm of Messrs Kilburn & Co. in Calcutta. He volunteered for service in South Africa and went overseas with No. 3 Section, A Company, Lumsden’s Horse, returning to Bombay in December 1901 in the S.S. Atlantian, by now promoted to Lance-Corporal. He was first commissioned as Second Lieutenant on 23 September 1915, in the Eastern Bengal Volunteer Rifles. In April 1917 he is shown serving with the 41st Eastern Bengal Company, and from February 1926 until October 1929, as Lieutenant in the Eastern Bengal Company, Auxiliary Force India.