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19 April 2023

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№ 193

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19 April 2023

Hammer Price:
£1,800

Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel C. G. Woodhouse, 126 Baluchistan Infantry

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Lieut. C. G. Woodhouse, 26th Baluch: Infy.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (Lieut: C. G. Woodhouse. 126th Baluch: Infy.); 1914-15 Star (Maj. C. G. Woodhouse, 126/Baluch. Infy.); British War and Victory Medals (Maj. C. G. Woodhouse.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj. C. G. Woodhouse. 126 Baluchis.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Major C. G. Woodhouse.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (7) £1,000-£1,400

Claude Gregory Woodhouse was born on 12 December 1875, and was educated at Westminster School, 1888-1891; Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1894, Seconnd Lieutenant, unattached, 22 January 1896; Indian Staff Corps, 3 April 1897; Lieutenant, 26th Baluchistan Infantry, 22 April 1898; Captain, 22 January 1905; Major, 22 January 1914; Lieutenant-Colonel, 28th Punjabis, 2 January 1921; retired 1921. Served in China 1900, relief of Pekin; East Africa 1902-04, operations in Somaliland, action at Jidballi; Great War 1914-19, operations in Egypt between November 1914 and March 1915; in France from June to December 1915; Aden Field Force, January and February 1916; German East Africa April 1916 to July 1917; Afghanistan and Waziristan 1919-21; and Iraq 120 (Despatches London Gazette 18 January 1921).

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