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

№ 843

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£600

Seven: Sapper J. Ewins, Royal Engineers, late Rifle Brigade

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98
(3906 Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Belfast (3906 Pte., Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3906 Pte., Rifle Brigade); British War and Victory Medals (39233 Spr., R.E.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R. (John Ewins); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, the earlier awards with contact mark and edge nicks, otherwise generally very fine and better (7) £600-800

John Ewins was awarded his I.S.M. for services to the London Postal Region (London Gazette 12 February 1937 refers).