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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 355

India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., 1st ´Kaisar-i-Hind´ type, Calcutta Mint issue, two clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Major T.L. Ball. S&T.C.), good very fine Estimate £ 180-220 Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Leeson Ball, born September 1875; Educated at Tonbridge School; Commissioned, Second Lieutenant, 3rd West India Regiment, having served with the 3rd Battalion (Militia) East Surrey Regiment, 25.1.1899; Promoted Lieutenant, 2.1.1900; Transferred Suffolk Regiment, 2.8.1902; Captain, 25.1.1908; Transferred Supply and Transport Corps, Indian Army, 21.2.1909; served with the Mohmand Field Force on the North West Frontier 1908; Assistant Director, Supply and Transport, 6.12.1914-5.2.1915; Major, 11.9.1915; Served during the Great War in Iraq, 27.8.1915-29.4.1916, and taken Prisoner Of War at Kut-al-Amara; Deputy Assistant Director, Supply and Transport, in the Waziristan Force, 13.4-12.11.1920; Lieutenant-Colonel, 19.11.1924; Retired 23.3.1929.

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