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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 559

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Voltr. J. H. Scott Lucknow Voltr. Rfls.), officially re-engraved naming, very fine

John Henry Scott served in the Telegraph Department and joined the Indian Volunteers during 1894. Married to Olive in March 1902, Scott held various appointments, being Signaller at Bareilly in 1911 and Telegraph Manager at Naini Tal in 1913. He was awarded the Medal on 7 September 1914 (Indian Army Order 485, refers) and rose to be Deputy Superintendent of Telegraphy. Having died in India, he was buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Calcutta on 2 September 1943; sold together with copied research.

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