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16 April 2020

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Lot

№ 472

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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£180

Pair: Captain S. C. Davies, M.B.E., Military Accounts Department, late Simla Rifles

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. S. C. Davies. M.A.D.) area of erasure before rank; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Voltr. S. C. Davies, 4/Simla Rfls. I.D.F.) edge bruising, very fine, first scarce to unit (2) £180-£220

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1932: Stanley Clifford Davies, Esq., Deputy Assistant Controller of Military Accounts, Eastern Command, Meerut, United Provinces.

Stanley Clifford Davies was born in Simla, India, on 24 April 1878, and was awarded his Volunteer Forces Long Service Medal on 16 December 1919 per Indian Army Order No. 981 of 1919, for service with the 4th Simla Rifles, Indian Defence Force He subsequently served as a Captain with the Military Accounts Departments, and was placed on the Indian Army Reserve of Officers List with the rank of Captain on 1 January 1922.