Lot Archive

Lot

№ 147

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£320

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut. E. Allfrey, 1/17th Regt.) good very fine £300-350

Allfrey joined the 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment out in Afghanistan in February 1879 and was present with it at the operations at Maidanak. Sadly, however, he died from ‘the effects of illness contracted in the field’ at Safed Sang on 13 May 1879 (Shadbolt refers).