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Auction: 7029 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 95

Central Africa 1891-98, ring suspension (2500 Sepoy Hakim Singh 32nd B.. Infy.), engraved in runing script, very fine, scarce to unit Estimate £ 300-350 Another Central Africa 1891-98 medal with the same naming details appeared as a pair with an Order of Merit, 3rd Class at Messrs Dix, Noonan, and Webb, 02.03.2005, Lot 109. Sepoy Hakim Singh 32nd Bengal Infantry was 1 of 8 recipients to be awarded the Order of Merit, ´´for conspicuous gallantry displayed in the expeditions which were undertaken against the Slave-dealing Chiefs in British Central Africa: For conspicuous gallantry in action at the capture and destruction of the stronghold of the Yao Chief Makanjira, on the south-east shore of Lake Nyassa, Central Africa, on the 30th October 1891.´´ The Lot appears entirely as issued. Provenance: Spink, 21.5.1945.

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