Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Army L.S. & G.C. (2), G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (S-Sgt. R. P. Barnes, I.A.C.C.; W-S-Sgt. W. R. Bates, Mily. Det. Corps (I)) good very fine and better (2) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Staff Sergeant Reginald Percy Barnes, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal, this notified in I.A.O. 922 of October 1937. During the Second World War he served in Burma and attained the rank of Commissary (Acting Major). Sold with copied service papers and other research.

Warder Staff Sergeant William Robert Bates, Military Detention Corps (India), was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal, this notified in I.A.O. 1225 of June 1943.

With copied I.A.O. extract.