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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 655

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & The Colonies), G.V.R. (Vol. G. Godfrey, 1st Punjab Vol. Rifles), engraved naming, very fine

Provenance:
Ex-John Tamplin collection.

The recipient was awarded his Long Service Medal in IAO 86 of March 1915.

He first appears in Thacker's Indian Directory in 1904, being listed as the Finishing Manager in the New Egerton Woollen Mills at Dharival in the Punjab. He was later Milling Manager of the same establishment and is last listed in the 1919 edition. He may be the 'G. Godfrey' who is recorded as dying and being buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Calcutta, in May 1921; sold with brief research.


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Sold for
£55