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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 540

(x) India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. F.V. Whittall, 3rd. Infy: Hydd. Contgt.), officially renamed in running script, right hand side clasp facing repaired, suspension re-affixed, good very fine

Colonel Francis Vaughan Whittall, born Agra, India, March 1861; educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Leinster Regiment, July 1881; transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the Hyderabad Contingent; promoted Lieutenant, August 1883; served with the 3rd Infantry Battalion in Burma, 1887-88; as a Special Service Officer in China, 1900 (Medal), and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 13.9.1901); advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, June 1904; retired with the Brevet rank of Colonel, 1912; rejoined, 1914, and Commanded the 10th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment and the 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War (awarded 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, and Victory Medal); died at home in East Grinstead, 6.10.1939.

Colonel Whittall's China Medal and Great War Medals were sold at auction, 2.12.2009.

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Sold for
£190