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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 54

x Three: Postmaster-General 2nd Grade W.A. Roussac, Postal Department India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Mr. W.A. Roussac. Postal Deptt.); India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (W,A, Roussac, Postal, Dept,); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, very fine or better, scarce (3) Estimate £ 300-350 Postmaster-General 2nd Grade William Alfred Roussac, born April 1866; joined the Indian Postal Department, May 1886, as an Inspector of Post Offices in Monywa, Burma; in charge of the duties in connection with the Manipur Field Force on the North East Frontier, 9.4-8.6.1891 (Medal and clasp); advanced Deputy Postmaster-General, Calcutta, November 1909; Madras, February 1910; Appointed Inspector General, Railway Mail Service and Sorting, Bombay, April 1910, in charge of all the mail as it arrived and departed from the magnificent Victoria Terminus; Postmaster-General, Patna, October 1918; present during the operations in Waziristan, May 1919 to January 1921 (Medal and clasp).

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