Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private C. Green, Dorset Regiment, later Northamptonshire Regiment

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4045 Pte. C. Green 1st. Bn., Dorset Regt.); 1914-15 Star (16266 Pte. C. Green. North’n R.); British War and Victory Medals (16266 Pte. C. Green. North’n R.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, this lacking pin, the reverse officially numbered 117262, suspension slack on first, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £220-£260

Charles Green attested for the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1892, but transferred to the Dorset Regiment the following year and served with the 1st Battalion in India, being wounded by gun shot wound to the left thigh during the Tirah Expedition. He was discharged in 1910, after 18 years’ service, but following the outbreak of the Great War re-enlisted into the Northamptonshire Regiment in August 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was discharged due to sickness on 23 August 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.