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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 192

x The Rare ´Chin Hills´ India General Service Medal to Captain, Later Lieutenant-Colonel, H.Y. Beale [D.S.O.], 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment; He Commanded the 3rd Battalion of His Regiment, 1901-02 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93 (Capt. H.Y. Beale, 2d Bn. Norf. R.), nearly very fine Estimate £ 1,600-1,800 D.S.O. London Gazette 31.10.1902 Henry Yelverton Beale, Captain and Adjutant Norfolk Regiment ´´In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa´´. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Yelverton Beale, D.S.O. (1860-1939); educated as Wellington College and Sandhurst; commissioned Second Lieutenant 9th Foot, 1881; Captain 2nd Battalion 9th Foot, 1888; served attached 1st Battalion (as he appears on the medal roll) for the operations in the Northern Chin Hills, 1892-93 (Brevet Major; Mentioned in Despatches G.G.O. of 1893); Adjutant 3rd (Militia) Battalion, 1897; Major 1899; served during the Boer War as a Station Staff Officer; Officer Commanding 3rd Battalion, 20.6.1901-20.3.1902 (D.S.O.; M.I.D. London Gazette 10.9.1901 and 29.7.1902); retired 15.8.1903; re-engaged for service during the Great War as Major, Depot, Norfolk Regiment, 5.8.1914; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Officer Commanding, Depot, Norfolk Regiment, December 1916-17.

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