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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 49

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel G.V. Dreyer, Royal Artillery 1914-15 Star (Capt. G.V Dreyer. R.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major G.V. Dreyer. R.A.), unit additionally later impressed; India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., 1st ´Kaisar-i-Hind´ type, Calcutta Mint issue, two clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, North West Frontier 1930-31, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Maj. G.V. Dreyer. R.A. 22/ Mtn. Batty.), very fine (4) Estimate £ 260-320 M.I.D. London Gazette 7.3.1918 Dreyer, Major G.V., Indian Mtn. Bty. M.I.D. London Gazette 6.5.1932 Dreyer, Lt.-Col. G.V., 23rd Indian Mountain Brigade Lieutenant-Colonel George Villiers Dreyer, born February 1883; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, 18.8.1900; Promoted Lieutenant, 8.10.1902; transferred Indian Army, 1.3.1910; Captain, 18.8.1913; served in the Great War, present in the operations against the Mohmands and Swatis with 29th Mountain Battery, Indian Army, 1915; Major, 30.12.1915; Commandant, Frontier Garrison Artillery, Indian Mountain Battery, 1917; was present in British, German, and Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, and Northern Rhodesia, 15.6.1917-7.2.1918; transferred 37th Mountain Battery, 1918; Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding 26th Field Brigade, 1.1.1929; transferred 22nd Mountain Battery and served in operations on the North West Frontier, 1930-31.

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