Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Lt. & Qr. Master M. Lynch 1st. Bn. Hamps. R.) nearly extremely fine £200-£240

Michael Lynch was born at Bangalore, India, on 8 September 1852 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment as a Private soldier on 6 May 1871. Advancing through the ranks, he was commissioned Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 13 May 1885, and served in Burma from 3 November 1888 to 27 January 1891. He was promoted Captain on 13 May 1895, and Major on 1 January 1903. He retired on 5 September 1907, having spent over 21 years soldiering in India. He died at Southsea, Hampshire, on 14 June 1913.

Sold with copied record of service and the recipient's obituary from The Hampshire Regimental Journal, which contains a portrait of the recipient.