Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (2415 Pte. A. Edwards 1st. Bn. D.C.L. Infy.) contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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Approximately 271 India General Service Medals with clasp Burma 1889-92 awarded to the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.

Albert Edwards was born in Handsworth, Staffordshire, in 1863 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 21 December 1887. He served with the Regiment in India and Burma from 18 October 1889, seeing active service in the Third Burmese War, and was discharged at Mandalay, unfit due to disease, on 9 February 1892, after 4 years and 51 days’ service.

Sold with copied record of service.