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№ 629

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3 December 2020

Hammer Price:
£40

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Tpr. R. P. N. Stephens) impressed naming, rank officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £50-£70

Provenance: J. Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.

R. P. N. Stephens lived in India for many years. He was an Engineer with the firm Muir Mills and Co., Ltd. of Cawnpore. He is first mentioned in Thacker’s Directory of 1918 and last in that of 1944. During that time Stephens progressed from Assistant Engineer to Chief Engineer, and also served as a Trooper with the, Cawnpore Squadron, United Province Horse (awarded VFLSM in 1933).