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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 298

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Lce. Corpl. G. H. Monk. E. I. Ry. Voltr. Rfls.), engraved naming, edge bruise, very fine

Gerald Horace Monk was born on 14 April 1880 at Howrah, the son of Charles George Monk, a Guard with the East Indian Railway. Having followed in his father's footsteps and taken appointment in the East Indian Railway in March 1897, Monk was Head Ticket Examiner at Howrah in 1906 and was awarded his Medal on 7 September 1914 (I.A.O. 485 of 1914, refers). Made Sub-Ord District Inspector by 1918, he was latterly a Movement Inspector at Birdwan. Monk died from diphtheria on 5 January 1931 and is buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Calcutta; sold together with copied research.

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£85

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