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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 558

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Voltr. J. A. Chisholm E I Ry Voltr Rfls), test mark near claw not obscuring naming, otherwise good very fine

John Adam Chisholm was born at Asansol on 8 March 1880, the son of George Chisholm, an Engineer on the East India Railway. Enlisting in the Volunteer Rifles on 22 January 1898, he was employed as a boilermaker. Chisholm served in No. 2 (Engineer) Company and was awarded his Medal on 7 September 1914 (Indian Army Order 485, refers). He was a District Boilermaker at Dinapore by the time of his marriage in December 1920; sold with copied research.

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£70

Starting price
£50