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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 175

(x) Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel A.T. Rowlandson, Baluchistan Infantry, Indian Army
China 1900, one clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn: A.T. Rowlandson. 26th. Baluch: Infy.); Tibet 1903-04, one clasp, Gyantse (Major A.T. Rowlandson 124 Baluchistan Infy.), good very fine (2)

Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Turner Rowlandson, born Madras, India, January 1867; educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Lieutenant, King's Own, August 1886; transferred to the Indian Staff Corps, February 1891; promoted Captain, Indian Army, August 1897; served with the 26th Baluchistan Infantry during the Third China War; and with the 124th Baluchistan Infantry during the Tibet Expedition; promoted Major, 25.8.1904; appointed Commandant, Mounted Infantry School, India, 5.12.1905; Commandant, 126th Baluchistan Infantry; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 16.1.1911; died in Kowloon, 19.7.1913, and is buried in Hong Kong Cemetery.

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