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№ 656

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11 October 2023

Hammer Price:
£95

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (13240 Dr. H. Lewis, 10th Fd. By. R.A.) contact marks, therefore very fine £100-£140

A. M. Macfarlane Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001.

H. Lewis served with the 10th Battery, Royal Field Artillery during the operation on the Punjab Frontier- the battery was especially commended by Sir Bindon Blood for getting its guns forward over very difficult terrain during the march to relieve Malakand Fort in 1897. Lewis subsequently served with the 12th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, in China during the Boxer Rebellion from July 1900 to November 1901, and was wounded in action on 30 October 1901 (entitled to the China medal with clasp Relief of Pekin).