Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., India, with Second Award Clasp (Sjt. J. M. McKay, Surma V.L.H., A.F.I.) edge bruising, very fine £60-80

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

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James Weir McKay was employed by the North-Western Cacher Tea Company, and he became Manager of the Kurkoorie Division. As a Serjeant in the Surma Valley Light Horse, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (India) with Clasp, announced in I.A.O. 554 of September 1933. On 8 April 1936 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the unit and was advanced to Lieutenant on 8 April 1939. Sold with copied research.