Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Pair: Captain Norman Birrell, Calcutta Scottish Volunteers

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Capt., Cal. Sco. A.F.I.) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (2) £100-140

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

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Norman Birrell was initially employed in India as an Assistant with the business house of Graham & Co., Calcutta and Bombay. Post-Great War he became a Partner. He served in the ranks of the Calcutta Scottish Volunteers and was first commissioned on 19 April 1915. As a Captain in the unit he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, this notified in I.A.O. 591 of July 1925. With copied research.