Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private H. G. Norris, 6th Dragoon Guards

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1699 Pte. Hy. G. Norris, 6th D. Gds.) late issue; North West Canada 1885, no clasp (Pte. H. G. Norris, Winnipeg L.I.) late issue; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1699 Pte. Hy. G. Norris, 6th Dn. Gds.) unofficially re-impressed, very fine (3) £340-380

Henry George. Norris joined the 6th Dragoon Guards on 26 May 1877, aged 24 years. He served with them until 23 November 1880 when he was invalided due to paralysis having been injured by his horse whilst on active duty in Afghanistan in 1879. For his service he was awarde dthe Afghanistan Medal and an Army Pension of 1/- a day. He was an In Pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 16 August 1881-12 April 1882, when he left of his own accord to go to Canada, where his health having recovered, he joined the Royal North West Mounted Police, serving with them until 1886. He was engaged in the supression of the Riel Rebellion in 1885, serving with Lieutenant-Colonel Osborne Smith’s Battalion raised in Winnipeg, and was awarded the medal with clasp. In 1909 he was again admited as an In Pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. In 1909/1911, having lost his two campaign medals in a prairie fire at Griswold, Manitoba in 1887, Norris applied for replacements. Sold with a number of copied papers re. the Royal Hospital and his claim for replacement medals. The award of an Army L.S. & G.C. not confirmed.