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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 438

Pair: Volunteer J. L. Odgers, East India Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Voltr. J. L. Odgers E. I. Ry. Vl. Rfls.), engraved naming; Jubilee 1935, good very fine (2)

Joseph Loftus Odgers was born at Fremantle, Western Australia in 1880, the son of The Rev. Joseph and Margaretta Odgers. He joined the East Indian Railway Company in December 1899 and was married at St Mary's, Jamalpur in October 1902. Odgers was awarded his L. S. Medal as per IAO 290 of June 1914 and by 1922 was Head Draftsman in the Electrical Department of the Railway and also Assistant Master at the Jamalpur Apprentices Technical School. Awarded the 1935 Jubilee Medal as Chief Draftsman of the Railways, he died at 102 Divinity Road, Oxford on 26 January 1957.

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