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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 35

The Afghanistan Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Turton, 4th Gurkha Rifles

Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Ali Musjid (Lt. Col: J. P. Turton, 4th Goorkha.). very fine

John Palmer Turton was born on 7 June 1832 and joined the 4th Gurkha Rifles in 1864, when they made Bakloh their permanent home. He served in Hazara, 1868 and Lushai, 1871-72 and served in Command of the Regiment during the Second Afghan War, before being succeeded by Colonel Tytler in February 1880. He died in August 1883.

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