Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar [not entitled] (1371. Pte. Hy. Fryer. 63rd. Regt.) polished, nearly very fine £80-£100

Henry Fryer was born in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 1844 and attested for the 7th Regiment of Foot at Uxbridge in August 1869 before transferring to the 63rd Regiment in March 1870. He served in India and Afghanistan, seeing active service during the Second Afghan War; temporarily attached to the 2nd Infantry Brigade, he left Quetta for Kandahar on 29 August 1880, and on 4 September 1880, when just two days’ march from Kandahar, received news of Lord Roberts’ victory at Kandahar on 1 September. Consequently Fryer was not entitled to the Kandahar clasp but, perhaps understandably, he felt that as he had proceeded to Kandahar he was entitled to it.

Fryer remained in India until his regiment went to Egypt in 1882, returning to the U.K. later in that year. He took his discharge from the army on 5 May 1883, and died at Uxbridge in 1896 aged 48.

Sold with copied research and medal roll extracts that confirms entitlement to a no clasp medal.