Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Captain & Hony. Maj. J. Franklin, B.B. & C.I. Rly. Volr. Rifles’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1904, with brooch bar, edge bruising, good very fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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James Franklin was employed by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. He was Telegraph Superintendent on the Southern Section of the railway. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the B.B. & C.I. R. Volunteer Rifles on 12 February 1887. He was promoted to Captain on 15 February 1895 and to Honorary Major on 6 April 1901. He was awarded the Indian Volunteer Force Officers’ Decoration, this published in the Gazette of India of 5 August 1905. Franklin was transferred to the Supernumerary List on 28 December 1905.

Sold with some copied research.