Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

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

Lot

№ 448

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£190

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S.M. E. Lowings, The Queen’s R.) extremely fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals.

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M.S.M. Army Order 306, August 1919.

Enoch Lowings was born in Roton Beds, Cambridgeshire and attested for the 2nd Foot on 13 July 1864, aged 18 years. With them he served in the East Indies from July 1866 to April 1879, attaining the rank of Warrant Officer on 1 July 1881. On 13 March 1885 he transferred to the Permanent Staff of the 3rd Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment and was discharged on 15 June 1893. Sold with copied service papers.