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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 301

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (No. 27 Pte. L. A. C. Biggs, Penang & Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps), officially engraved naming, nearly extremely fine and rare

Ex-Tamplin Collection, 2009.

Awarded Straits Settlements Government Gazette 1 August 1924.

Louis Alban Coutier Biggs was born in 1871 at Chickerell, Weymouth, the son of The Rev. Louis Coutier Biggs, founder of St. George's School in Penang (http://teochiewkia2010.blogspot.com/2010/07/reverend-louis-courtier-biggs.html).Young Biggs was educated at Blundell's School and went to Penang in 1896, initially as Secretary to Mr Justice Law. Married to Anna Minnit on 28 March 1925, whilst Secretary of the Municipal Commissioners, Penang, he died in 1959.


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