Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. H. P. L. Estridge 2nd Bn. R.W. Surr. R.) polished, good fine £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter.

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Henry Powys Loraine Estridge was born at Ramsgate, Kent, in July 1858. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 11 August 1880 and promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1881. He served in the Burmese Expedition in 1885-88 with the 2nd Battalion Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment under Brigadier-General Lockhart; commanded a detachment of the regiment which accompanied the Southern Shan Column from November 1887 to April 1888. Lieutenant Estridge died at Ambala, Bengal, India, on 28 January 1891.