Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (472 Lce. Sgt. D. B. Little, 1/17th Regt.) edge nicks, nearly extremely fine £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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David Berak Little, who was born in Edinburgh, appears to have enlisted in the 17th Regiment under an alias in September 1859, aged 24 years. In his subsequent career of 21 years with the Colours, his overseas postings included upward of five years in North America and another ten years in the East Indies, the latter including active service in the Second Afghan War. Promotion, meanwhile, had been of a haphazard nature, Little several times losing his Corporal’s stripes for assorted misdemeanours, but with effect from 1876, he climbed rapidly from Lance-Corporal to Sergeant, in which latter rank he was discharged at Netley in December 1880.