The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 4 clasps, 1887-8, 1892, 1893-94, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (417 Pte. E. Larmin, 1/W.I. Rgt.) cleaned and lacquered, edge bruising, good very fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards.

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Sold with verification for the ‘1892’ and ‘1893-94’ clasps only.

Three separate expeditions contributed to the authorisation of the ‘1892’ clasp, one of them being against the Toniatabas in Sierra Leone, where a soldier of the 1st Battalion, West India Regiment, Lance-Corporal W. J. Gordon, won a Victoria Cross.