A Collection of Medals to the 9th and 12th Lancers

Pair: Sergeant R. Hart, 9th Lancers and Commissariat Department, who was employed as Cavalry Brigade Sergeant with the Kabul to Kandahar Field Force

Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (1431. Corpl. R. Hart. 9th Lancers); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Sergt. R. Hart Commissariat Departt.) extremely fine (2) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 9th and 12th Lancers.

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Richard Hart enlisted into the 9th Lancers at London District on 1 May 1872, aged 22. He was appointed a Sub-Conductor in the Commissariat Department, Bengal, in May 1889, became a Conductor in March 1898, and was pensioned on 19 January 1900. Sold with copied roll for Kabul to Kandahar Star which gives his qualifying service as Cavalry Brigade Sergeant as ‘Battle of Charasiab, Defence of Sherpore and Battle of Baba Walli Kotal’.