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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 86

Pair: Colonel A. D. Parsons, 2nd Madras Lancers, late South Devon Militia

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Cap: A. D. Parsons. 1st M. Lt. C.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Colonel. A. D. Parsons 2nd. Madras Lcrs.), good very fine (2)

Arthur Dewar Parsons was born in September 1834, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Parsons, 10th Hussars, British Resident at Zante. An obituary notice was placed in Exeter and Plymouth Gazette on 1 November 1918 stating:

'Colonel Parsons served with the South Devon militia when it was embodied during the Crimean War and received, through Lord Grey, one of the first Queen's cadetships to India, joining the 1st Madras Light Cavalry in 1856.'

Parsons served in Afghanistan, being invalided from Jacobadad in July 1880 and in Burma, before retiring in 1899. He died at Middle Chinnock, Somerset on 24 October 1919; sold with copied research.

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£650