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№ 946

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5 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£240

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Relief of Chitral 1895, clasps remounted in this order (Subdr. Major Jamit Singh, 25th Bl. Infy.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £80-£120

Provenance: A. M. Shaw Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013.

Jamit Singh joined the Bengal Infantry on 6 July 1866, and was promoted Jemadar on 28 June 1884; Subadar on 17 August 1886; and Subadar-Major on 1 April 1890. He was awarded the Order of British India 2nd Class on 13 August 1897, for services with the Tochi Field Force 1897.