Medals from the Collection of Peter Duckers

Five: Corporal R. D. Fordham, Lucknow Volunteer Rifles, who served in East Africa with the Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company

1914-15 Star (No. 30 Cpl. R. D. Fordham. Lkn. Vol. Rfls.); British War Medal 1914-20 (30 Cpl. R. D. Fordham. Vol. M.G.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (30 Cpl. R. D. Fordham. Vol. M. G. Coy.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Trooper R. D. Fordham, 10 N.T. Coy. I.D.F.) good very fine (5) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter Duckers.

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Provenance: Bruce C. Cazel Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, November 2009.

Robert Denzil Fordham was born in 1889. He was a member of the Lucknow Volunteer Rifles when war broke out in 1914 and was one of the select group from that unit chosen to join the Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company (No. 3 Section), which served in East Africa between 1914 and 1917. In April 1918, following their return to India, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into his former unit now renamed 5th (Lucknow) Group Garrison Artillery (London Gazette 26 November 1918), the timing perhaps explaining the lack of commissioned rank on his Great War medals. He relinquished his commission as Second Lieutenant in the Indian Defence Force in February 1919.

Fordham was the author of several works on botany and gardening in the United Provinces of India and at one time was responsible for the public gardens in Lucknow.

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