Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (15802956 Pte. J. G. Anderson. 1 K.D. Guards.) edge bruise, very fine £70-£90

Buckland Dix & Wood, October 1995.

John G. Anderson attested for the King’s Dragoon Guards and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 June 1915; it is probable, therefore, that he joined the Regiment after the declaration of War, as the Regiment as a whole was stationed in India in 1914, and arrived in France en masse in November 1914. He returned with the Regiment to India in October 1917, and saw further action during the Third Afghan War, where, at Dakka, north west of the Khyber Pass, the regiment made one of the last recorded charges by a British horsed cavalry unit - for this action Lieutenant Card was awarded the M.C. Anderson was discharged to the Reserve on 27 January 1920.

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