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Auction 30  18-20 Jan 2018
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Lot 1262

Starting price: 65 USD
Price realized: 65 USD
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GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AR medal, The British War Medal, Sir Bertram Mackennal's bareheaded effigy of King George V facing left, with the legend GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP: // Saint George naked on horseback and armed with a short sword, an allegory of the physical and mental strength which achieved victory over Prussianism; the horse tramples on the Prussian eagle shield and the emblems of death, a skull and cross-bones; in the background are ocean waves and just off-centre near the right upper rim is the risen sun of Victory; the years 1914 and 1918 appear on the perimeter in the left and right fields respectively, with new ribbon, awarded to 939 Sepoy Katha Singh, 107th Pioneers, EF, ex Ajit Singh Collection. The British War Medal is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom which was awarded to officers and men of British and Imperial forces for service in the First World War including the Indian Army. The 107th Pioneers were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. Their origin can be traced back to 1788, when they were raised as the 4th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys.

Estimate: 75-100 USD
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