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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 242

Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (60th. Bde. 868. Pte. M. Brooks, 73rd. Foot), minor edge bruise, good very fine

868 Private Mark Brooks, born Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, 1835; enlisted in the 73rd Foot, November 1858; transferred to the 19th Foot, February 1861; served with the 1st Battalion in India, and took part in Major-General A.T. Wilde's Expedition against the Bazoti Black Mountain Tribes in Hazara, 1868 (entitled to India General Service Medal with clasp Northwest Frontier); transferred back to the 73rd Foot, September 1876; awarded Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, August 1878; discharged, August 1878, after 21 years and 20 days with the Colours.

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