Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (... Pte. J. Milbank, 1st. Bn. D.C.L. ...) edge bruising and contact marks that has partially obscured naming, nearly very fine £100-£140

Donald G. Mellen Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2015.

James Milbank was born in Newington Butts, Surrey. A Carman by occupation and a member of the 3rd Battalion East Surrey Regiment, he attested for the General Service Infantry at London on 16 January 1883, aged 19 years 1 month. Posted to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, he served in Egypt and the Sudan from December 1883 to June 1886, including the Nile Expedition of 1884-85 (Medal and clasp, and Khedive’s Star), and in India from February 1888 to March 1895, including service with the Wuntho Field Force Expedition of 1891 (Medal and clasp included in this lot). He was discharged in April 1895.