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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 837

(x) Ten: Sub-Conductor A. Jolliffe, Indian Army Service Corps, late Corps of Military Staff Clerks and King's Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (R-14781 Pte. A. Jolliffe. K. R. Rif. C.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21, erased; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45 with M.I.D. oak leaf; India Service Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. crowned head bust, India (S-Condr. A. Joiliffe, I.A.S.C.), note surname spelling of the last, generally very fine (10)

Alfred Joliffe was born on 31 July 1896 at Wandsworth, London. He served in France with the 17th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, from 15 June 1916, and later transferred to the 16th and 19th Battalions. After the Great War Alfred saw active duty in Waziristan as a Staff Clerk from 14 October 1920 - 16 November 1920 before serving with the British Wing of the Indian Corps of Clerks and the Indian Army Service Corps from 14 September 1924 - 15 August 1947, receiving a mention in despatches during the course of the Second World War (London Gazette 26 December 1941, refers). He retired on 2 April 1948.

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