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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 152

Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Ali Musjid (Lt. Col. C.L. Woodruffe, 45th. Ben; N.I.), with top silver riband buckle, good very fine Estimate £ 350-400 Major-General Charles Lorrain Woodruffe (1841-1898), born Maida Vale, London; educated in Dresden, Germany and at Mount Pleasant School, Sunbury, Middlesex; Commissioned Ensign, 68th Native Infantry, June 1858, too late to take part in the Great Sepoy Mutiny; Lieutenant, October 1858; Posted Bengal Staff Corps, October 1858; Captain, June 1870; Transferred 45th (Rattray´s Sikhs), Bengal Native Infantry, with the appointment of Quarter Master, March 1872; Major, June 1878; Second in Command and Wing Commander, November 1878; served with distinction at Futtehabad, 2.4.1879, where he commanded three companies of the 45th (250 men); given the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel ´in recognition of services during the late Afghan Campaign 1878-9´ (London Gazette 21.11.1879); Colonel, November 1883; retired with the honorary rank of Major-General, October 1886.

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