Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1889-92, N.E. Frontier 1891 (5435 Bugler G. W. Stewart 4th Bn. K. R. Rif. C.) good very fine £240-£280

Peter Wardrop Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2000; Llewellyn Lord Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2016.

Only 25 medals with this clasp combination to the 4th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

G. W. Stewart served with the 4th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps on the North West Frontier of India with the Tamu Column between 18 April and 7 May 1891, and in Burma with the Baungshe Column between 25 December 1891 and 29 February 1892. He subsequently served with the 2nd Battalion Mounted Infantry in South Africa during the Boer War (entitled to Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and South Africa 1901).