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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 343

The Rare Ghuznee 1839, Long Service Medal, and Ten Year Regimental ´M.S.M.´ Group of Three to Corporal William Rofe, 2nd Foot Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, with contemporary silver straight bar suspension; Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Corpl. Wm. Rofe, 2nd. Foot.), with original claw and later ring suspension; 2nd Foot Meritorious Service Cross for 10 Years´ Service, X incised on obverse, reverse engraved ´Queen´s Royal For Ten Years´ Meritorious Service to William Rofe´, good very fine (3) Estimate £ 800-900 358 Corporal William Rofe, born Hampshire, 1807; enlisted in the 2nd Foot, July 1824; promoted Corporal, November 1838; discharged October 1847, after 22 years and 83 days with the colours, of which 17 years and eleven months were spent in India. Provenance: Ex- Lord Cheylesmore´s Collection.

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