Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (2546 Pte. A. Saunders 1st. Bn. Hamps: Regt.) good very fine £140-£180

Alfred Charles Saunders was born in Freshwater, Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1869 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Sandown on 11 April 1887, having previously served in the 3rd Brigade, Southern Division, Royal Artillery. Posted to the 1st Battalion, he served with them in Burma and India from 15 October 1889 to 20 October 1903, during which period he took part in the Touhon Expedition in Burma from 17 December 1889 to 9 April 1890. He saw further service overseas in Aden from 21 October 1903 to 28 May 1904, and Bermuda from 22 November 1905 to 25 September 1907, and was finally discharged on 10 April 1908, after 21 years’ service.

Sold with copied record of service.