Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Lieut. E. E. S. Bennett 11th. Rajputs.) good very fine £140-£180

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of H.M. King Edward VII Medals.

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Ernest Edward Sebastian Bennett was born on 3 November 1879 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List, Indian Army, on 17 January 1900. Promoted Lieutenant on 10 April 1901, he served on attachment to the 11th Rajputs during the Waziristan campaign 1901-02. He served during the Great War as a Major in the 66th Punjabis in the Asiatic theatre of War from 1 April 1915 (entitled to a 1914-15 Star trio), and died in service on 26 March 1919. He is buried in Delhi War Cemetery, India.

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