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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 434

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Lt. R. J. Gilmore, Assam V.L.H. A.F.I.), impressed naming, official correction to rank, good very fine

Robert Jackson Potter Gilmore was born at Cheltenham on 24 April 1878, the son of Robert and Jelina, of 17 Rotunda Terrace. Gilmore went out to India to plant tea and by 1903 was an Assistant with the Brahmaputra Tea Company of Assam. He joined the Indian Volunteers in 1906 and was married at St John's Cathedral, Calcutta in November 1909. Gilmore was the Manager of the Borpukhuri Tea Estate of some 627 acres by 1915 and three years later was in the same position of the Dooria Tea Company, which had some 2,700 acres in the Golaghat District. He had joined the 'Light in Assam' Masonic Lodge (No. 3195) in March 1916 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Assam Valley Light Horse in October 1924. His L. S. Medal was awarded by IAO 491 of June 1926. Gilmore died as the result of an abdominal operation on 29 August 1932 and is buried in the Cinnamara Government Cemetery, Assam.

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