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Auction 30  18-20 Jan 2018
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Lot 1252

Starting price: 120 USD
Price realized: 190 USD
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GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AR medal, The Africa General Service Medal, bust of Edward VII in military uniform EDWARDVS VII REX IMPERATOR // Britannia standing with a lion and offering peace and law to Africa as a new day breaks, with the word AFRICA below, SOMALILAND 1902-04 clasp, with new ribbon, awarded to 227 Sepoy Balbhadar, 41st Dogras, VF, ex Ajit Singh Collection. The Africa General Service Medal, established in 1902, was a campaign medal of the United Kingdom. It was awarded for minor campaigns that took place in tropical Africa between 1900 and 1956, with a total of forty five clasps issued. The medal is never seen without a clasp. SOMALILAND 1902-04: For participation in a number of Somaliland campaigns against rebels led by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, nicknamed the 'Mad Mullah' by the British. As well as locally raised forces and the King's African Rifles, participants included British and Indian army units and the Royal and Indian Navies. The 41st Dogras were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1900, when they were raised as the 41st (Dogra) Bengal Infantry.

Estimate: 125-175 USD
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