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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 184

India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Relief of Chitral (Lieut. W.C. Hibbert Q.O. Madras S & M.), extremely fine, together with three photographic images of the recipient

Lieutenant-Colonel William George Hibbert, born Kingston, Ontario, Canada, December 1869; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, February 1889; promoted Lieutenant, February 1892; served with the Chitral Relief Force as Company Officer, No.6 Company, Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, employed on line of communications; promoted Captain, 15.2.1900; Major, 14.10.1908; retired, 21.2.1910; re-employed as Commandant, Royal Engineers, Preston District, 7.8.1914; retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 28.12.1918; died, Paris, 28.9.1931.

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