Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (Lieut. H. R. F. Anderson, S.C.) official correction to unit, nearly extremely fine £200-240

Major Horace Robert Francis Anderson was born in August 1863 and commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment in August 1883. Transferred as Lieutenant to the Lancashire Fusiliers in October 1883, he was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps in January 1885. In 1891 he served on the Staff Corps in the operations against the Hassanzais and Akazais tribesmen and was awarded a medal and mentioned in despatches. Advanced to Captain in August 1894 and Major in August 1901; he died on 20 August 1903 on board S.S. Oriental en route to Aden. Sold with a quantity of copied research.