Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Graham, Indian Army
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia 1901 [sic]; British War and Victory Medals; Jubilee 1935; Defence Medal, mounted as worn in this order and housed in a glazed display frame, good very fine, the first rare

Ashanti 1900, no clasp; 1914 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, generally very fine (9) £120-£160

John Scot Graham was born on 24 August 1880 and served in West Africa in 1901 as part of the embodied Militia, taking part in the expedition up the Gambia and in the operations against Fodi Kabba (Medal with clasp). He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment on 30 April 1902, and was seconded for duty with the West African Regiment, with the rank of Lieutenant. He transferred to the Indian Army on 24 December 1905, and served with the Military Accounts Department, being advanced Captain on 10 July 1911. He served during the Great War briefly in Mesopotamia from October 1918 (British War and Victory Medals), and was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 February 1928.