Auction Catalogue

16 December 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1288

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£200

Bikanhir Camel Corps (State Forces), a very scarce Major’s kurta of pale cream coloured woollen cloth, red facings gold lace, one red cloth shoulder chain lining present, internal tailors label for ‘A&M Shaw & Co. The Outfitters (Mily & Police) Ludhiana’, severe moth damage to back panel and dirty overall £200-300

The Bikanhir Camel Corps was raised in 1884 and saw service in China 1900, Somaliland 1901-04 and during the Great War, Egypt Persia and Iraq.