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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 12

(x) India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Asst. Surgeon Reginald Croft Lever, 7th Hussars.), nearly extremely fine

Reginald Croft Lever was born at Hampstead on 13 September 1837. He became an Assistant Surgeon with the 7th Hussars, then stationed in India, on 2 December 1862. Three troops of the 7th Hussars served in Brevet Colonel A. F. Macdonell's expedition against Sultan Muhammed Khan, whose Mohmands and Bajauris had attacked the fort of Shabkadar (Medal & clasp). This campaign lasted from 5 December 1863 to 2 January 1864. The Regiment returned to England on 8 April 1870, Lever becoming its Medical Officer in 1874. On retiring from military service, he lived at 49 Bedford Row, London (London Gazette, 27 February 1873, refers). He died at Denton House, Iffley, Oxfordshire on 6 June 1922, and was buried with his wife Florence at St. Mary's Church, Iffley.

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