Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93 (Staff Sergt. W. R. Parsons, Commst. Dept. B.C.) naming officially re-engraved, good very fine £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Alan Wolfe.

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William Robert Parsons was born on 7 October 1863, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Farnborough on 7 October 1882, aged 19. He embarked for India on the Jumna on 18 October 1886, and transferred to the Bengal Unattached List at Lucknow in June 1892, as a Corporal in the Commissariat Department, with whom he saw service during the Chin Hills operations of 1892-93. He was promoted to Sub-Conductor in October 1901, and was remanded back to the Royal Artillery on 1 December 1902.