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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 87

(x) Pair: Sergeant-Major J. Hounsell, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (1830. Corpl. J. Hounsell. 2/60th. Foot.); Kabul to Kandahar Star, unnamed, very fine (2)

Job Hounsell was born in 1849 at Buckland Ripers, Weymouth, Dorset, and attested for the 60th Rifes at Southampton on 7 April 1868, giving his trade as groom. Promoted Corporal on 27 June 1879, Sergeant, 29 August 1882, and Sergeant-Major, 19 September 1885, Hounsell saw extensive service overseas in India and Afghanistan from 19 November 1869-24 January 1881, being stationed at Peshawar, Meerut and Kandahar - where his health was affected by the climate. Transferred to South Africa from 25 January 1881-11 January 1882, he was later discharged at Gibraltar on 18 June 1893, his habits described as 'temperate' and his conduct 'exemplary.'; sold with copied service record confirming his participation in the campaigns in Afghanistan, South Africa and against the Marri Tribes.

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Sold for
£320