Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Tirah Campaign Medal awarded to Private J. Jones, Gordon Highlanders, who was dangerously wounded at the attack on the Dargai Heights on 20 October 1897

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4867 Pte J. Jones 1st Bn. Gord: Hrs) nearly very fine £600-£800

Ex. Jack Wadey Collection; Buckland Dix & Wood, September 1994.

John Jones was a native of Aidrie, Scotland, and enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders in 1893. He was dangerously wounded, by a gun shot in the left thigh, during the Gordons' gallant assault and capture of the Dargai Heights, 20 October 1897, where Piper George Findlater and Private Edward Lawson won the Victoria Cross.

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