Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (1292 Drumr. J. Axon. 1st. Bn. R. W. Fus.) edge nicks, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2011.

Joseph Alfred Axon (also recorded as Axson) attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and served as a Drummer with the 1st Battalion in India. He died at Peshawar on 6 December 1892, aged 25 years, of ‘Remittent Fever’.

Sold with copied Death Certificate (listed as ‘Axson’ and recorded as ‘Irish’) and medal roll extracts.