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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 816

Three: Battery Sergeant Major T. Whitbread, Royal Artillery Empress of India 1877, silver (Sjt. Thomas Whitbread. R.A.), engraved in upright serif capitals; Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (934. B.Sjt. Maj: T. Whitbread. 5th. Bde. R.A.); Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Sjt: T. Whitbread. R.A.), minor edge knock to second, generally very fine or better (3) Estimate £ 500-600 Sergeant Major Thomas Whitbread, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1836; enlisted as Gunner in the 6th Battalion, Royal Artillery, October 1857; Corporal, September 1865; Sergeant, March 1868; served in Gibraltar for two years and eleven months; and in India for 12 years and nine months; Appointed Battery Sergeant Major, December 1875; discharged May 1879 after 21 years and 231 days with the Colours.

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