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Sold on 4 July 2001

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The Collection of Medals to Artillery Units formed by Lt-Col. A.M. Macfarlane

Lt-Col. A.M. Macfarlane, RA (Retd)

Lot

№ 165

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£70

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (13240 Dr. H. Lewis, 10th Fd. By. R.A.) contact marks, therefore very fine £60-70

This battery was especially commended by Sir Bindon Blood for getting its guns forward over very difficult terrain during the march to relieve Malakand Fort in 1897. Lewis was attached to 12 Battery, R.F.A., during the Boxer rebellion and received the China medal with clasp Relief of Pekin.