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Sold between 19 & 13 September 2012

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Awards to the Indian Army from the Collection of AM Shaw

Mike Shaw

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№ 968 x

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£140

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel Hari Das, Indian Medical Service

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. Hari Das, I.M.S.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt. Hari Das, I.M.S.); War and Indian Service Medals, these unnamed, very fine (4) £160-200

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Hari Das was born on 14 September 1890. He studied Medicine at Calcutta and London Hospitals, gaining a B.A. Cal. (Hons), 1911, M.R.C.S., 1917, L.R.C.P. Lond. 1917, M.B. (Hons), B.S. Lond. 1917. Appointed a Temporary Lieutenant in the I.M.S. on 11 January 1919 and served as Temporary Captain, January 1920-February 1922. Later confirmed in that rank, he was advanced to Major in July 1930 and to Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1938. In 1945 he was Assistant Director of Medical Services for Pensions at Indian Army H.Q. With copied Indian Army List extracts.