Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Company Sergeant Major C. Munds, East Kent Regiment

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4300 Pte. C. Munds 1st. Bn. East Kent Regt.); Defence Medal, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. C. R. Munds, 69 Victoria Road, Margate, Kent’; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4300 Sjt: C. Munds. E. Kent Regt.) good very fine (3) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.

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Caleb Richard Munds was born in Lydd, Kent, in 1875 and attested for the East Kent Regiment at Shorncliffe on 12 October 1893. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 8 December 1894 to 13 October 1903, and was advanced Sergeant on 11 November 1903. He transferred to the 4th (Territorial) Battalion on 15 March 1911, and saw further service during the Great War at home with the Battalion as Company Sergeant Major Instructor. His Second War service is unconfirmed, but given that his Defence Medal was issued by ‘Yeomanry House, Maidstone’ and sent to ‘69 Victoria Road, Margate’ (which was and still is the site of a Drill Hall), it is probable that he was serving at home as an Instructor.

Sold with copied record of service; medal roll extracts; and other research.