Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1170

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£120

Pair: Major A. R. Sprenger, Canadian Engineers, late Indian Army

British War and Victory Medals (Major); together with a renamed China 1900, no clasp (Lieut., 2nd (Q.O.) Rajput L.I.), mounted as worn with a fragment of ribbon from a I.G.S. 1895, China with contact marks, good fine; others good very fine (3) £40-50

Aloys Reginald Sprenger entered the Indian Army in 1897 and was appointed to the 2nd Rajput Light Infantry in 1898, becoming a Double Company Officer in 1900. In the Great War, with the Canadian Engineers, he held the post of Staff Captain in the Department of the Master-General of the Ordnance, from July 1917.