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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 365

x India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn. W.E. McKechnie. I.M.S. 29th. Pjbis.), good very fine Estimate £ 140-180 Lieutenant-Colonel William Ernest McKechnie, born Kronstadt, Orange Free State, South Africa, August 1874; educated at Edinburgh University (M.B., 1897); Commissioned Lieutenant, Indian Medical Service, July 1899; served during the China Campaign with No. 2 Native General Hospital, China Frontier Force, 1900; Captain, 27.7.1902; Appointed District Doctor, Umballa, 1906; served during operations in Mohmand Country, February-May 1908; Major, 27.7.1911; Lieutenant-Colonel, 28.1.1919; retired, 23.1.1922. Provenance: Spink, November 1977.

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