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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 273

Miniature Awards: The Great War D.S.O. Group of Five Attributed to Colonel A.B. Longden, 38th Dogras, Indian Army Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., two clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves, good very fine, mounted as originally worn, with the recipient´s Great War epaulettes, carrying the rank insignia of a Lieutenant-Colonel (5) Estimate £ 80-120 D.S.O. London Gazette 30.5.1919 Lt.-Col. Arthur Berridge Longden, 38th Dogras, I.A. Colonel Arthur Berridge Longden, D.S.O., (1868-1936), Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, February 1888; promoted Lieutenant, July 1889; transferred Indian Staff Corps, December 1891; Captain, December 1899; Major, 37th Dogras, 11.2.1905; Appointed to the Command of the 38th Dogras with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 11.2.1914; served during the Great War and Mention in Despatches (London Gazette 4.7.1916); Colonel, 11.6.1919; retired, 8.6.1920.

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