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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 40

India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieut. F.G. Newall. 2nd. Bn. Arg: & Suth'd: Highrs.), top lugs removed, light contact marks, good very fine

Major Fraser George Newall, born Sunbury, Middlesex, January 1872; served with the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Cameronians, as Lieutenant, 1891; transferred as Second Lieutenant, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, October 1892; promoted Lieutenant, January 1896; served with the 2nd Battalion as part of the Tochi Field Force under General Sir Corry Bird on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897-98; took part in the Nile Expedition, 1899 (Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 30.1.1900) and awarded the Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class); promoted Captain, 11.1.1900; Major, 2.2.1915; served during the Great War with the 11th Battalion on the Western Front from 19.8.1917; died, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, 22.2.1921.

Major Newall's British War and Victory Medals, Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh, and Khedive's Sudan Medal 1896-1908 with clasps for Gedid and Sudan 1899 sold as part of the Taylor Collection, Christie, November 1990.

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