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25 May 2022

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№ 351

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£140

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (1570 Pte. J. Higgins. 2d Bn. Ches. R.) good very fine £100-£140

John Higgins was born at Liverpool and enlisted for the Cheshire Regiment at Birkenhead on 13 March 1885, aged 19 years 6 months, a painter by trade. He served abroad with the 2nd Battalion in India from September 1885, and then in Burma from March 1888 to February 1889. He was discharged on 12 March 1897.

Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm medal and clasp.