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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 929

An unusual group of four awarded to Major A. Peebles, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles, later Civil Defence Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. Peebles.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved 'Capt. A. Peebles. M. & S. M. Ry. Rif. A.F.I.', mounted as worn, good very fine (4)

Archibald Peebles was born on 11 August 1888 and was educated at Glasgow Academy, serving in their Officer Training Corps contingent, from which he was commissioned in November 1908. Taking work on the Indian Railways, he would be advanced Lieutenant on 1 April 1917 in the 1/32nd Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles - being issued a sole British War Medal for his service in India during the Great War.

Having married in India in 1922, Peebles was advanced to Major in his unit by April 1928 and served in the Civil Defence Corps during the Second World War. Being noted upon the 1953 Coronation Medal roll as 'Councillor' in the Civil Defence Corps, he died at Hillingdon, London in 1980; sold with copied research including portrait photograph.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£130