Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (B/783. Pte. R. Anderson. 92nd Highrs.) minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £280-£340

Robert Anderson was born in the Parish of Wigton, Wigtonshire, Scotland, and enlisted into the 56th Brigade at Kilmarnock on 24 December 1877, aged 22, a carter by trade, and transferred to the 92nd Regiment on 30 December 1878. He served overseas in the East Indies from 16 December 1878 to 13 January 1881, including service in the war in Afghanistan (Medal with 3 Clasps, Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880), and in South Africa during the First Boer War from 14 January to 17 October, 1881. He was discharged ‘unfit for further service’ at Netley Hospital on 6 June 1882. Sold with copied discharge papers and extract from medal roll confirming medal with three clasps and Kabul to Kandahar Star.