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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 76

x Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel J.N. Blood, Indian Army Ordnance Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J.N. Blood.), minor official correction to Victory Medal; India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Capt. J.N. Blood, I.A.O.C.); 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, the Second World War awards all named Boots style ´Lt-Col J.N. Blood I.A.O.C.´, good very fine or better (7) Estimate £ 180-220 Lieutenant-Colonel John Neptune Blood, born April 1897; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 27.10.1915; served during the Great War in Salonika, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Aegean Islands, 31.3.1916-6.6.1918; Lieutenant, 1.7.1917; Captain, 27.10.1919; arrived in India, 29.11.1919; transferred Indian Army Ordnance Corps, 30.7.1924; Appointed Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, Provision Section; Lieut-Colonel, Indian Army Regular Reserve of Officers, 11.8.1941; retired 1944; died 7.11.1960. John Neptune Blood was a descendant of the infamous "Colonel" Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels during the reign of King Charles I; he was named after the Very Rev. Neptune Blood, D.D. (1595-1692), so called because he was born at Sea. For the Medals to Major-General Clements Blood see Lot 23.

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