Five: Colour-Sergeant E. H. Jose, United Provinces Horse and Rohilkund Volunteer Rifles

Delhi Durbar 1911 (Presented to Mr E. H. Jose on 9 May 1912) engraved naming; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Trooper, U.P. Horse. 1st (Southn.) Regt.) engraved naming, correction to naming; Rohilkund Volunteer Rifles Medal, reverse engraved, ‘Best Shot in Battalion, 1899-1900, 232 Points, Sergt. E. H. Jose’, 36mm., silver; N.W. Province & Oude Volunteer Best Shot Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘1901-1902. Won by Colour Sergt. E. H. Jose, Rohilkhand Volunteer Rifles, 70 Points’, 35mm., silver; Shooting Medal, obverse engraved, ‘N. Regt. U.P. Horse’, reverse engraved, ‘Presented by L. Landau & Co., Mussoorie’, 36 x 32mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1913, good very fine (5)
£180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Trooper E. H. Jose was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, notified in I.A.O. 92 of February 1912. Circa 1906 he was employed in the Office of the Superintendent of the Benares Opium Agency at Ghazipur. Circa 1921 he was Secretary of the Municipality of Mussooree. With some copied research.