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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 557

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Corpl. I. N. Bartlett. 2nd. Bn. B. B. & C.I. Ry. Voltr. Rfls.), very fine

Irwin Novall Bartlett was born in India on 26 July 1874, the son of David James Novall, a Private in the 2/60th Rifles. Baptised at Rawalpindi, he was appointed an Erector on the North Western Railway by April 1900. Married at Lahore in June 1900, Bartlett saw further service as a locomotive foreman on the Jodhpur Bikaner Railway (1907), being awarded his Medal in March 1915 (Indian Army Order 86, refers). An Assistant in the ironworks at Ajmer by 1918, he was promoted Assistant Foreman in the Smith Shop on the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway and was Junior Smithy Foreman at Ajmer by 1932. Bartlett died in 1967; sold with copied research and biographical extracts.

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£90

Starting price
£60