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№ 418

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15 February 2023

Hammer Price:
£550

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (200623 Cpl. D. Groves. Hamps. R.) suspension slightly loose, good very fine and rare to unit £300-£400

One of only 16 ‘S. Persia’ clasps awarded to the Hampshire Regiment.

M.I.D. London Gazette 3 February 1920:
‘For valuable services rendered with the Bushire Force in Persia during the period from 1 April 1918 to 31 March 1919.’


Daniel Groves attested for the Hampshire Regiment and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War and in the Third Afghan War; and also on attachment to the 34th Sanitation Section, Royal Army Medical Corps in Persia, for which services he was Mentioned in Despatches.