India General Service 1854-95 / China / Long Service Group of (4) Medals to Veterinary Department

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (2690 Sergt.-Farr; A. Maddocks. Sub: Vety; Dept.) renamed; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Sergt. Farrier A Maddocks Army Vety. Dept.) first and second clasps soldered together, Tirah clasp a tailor’s copy; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Farr. Qr. Mr. Sergt. A. Maddocks, S.V.D.) heavy solder marks on clasp, naming officially corrected in several places; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Fr. Qr. Mr. Sergt. A. Maddocks. Sub. Vety. Deptt.) 

Contact marks and edge bruising, average very fine condition.

Ex Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004,

Abram Maddocks was born in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, in 1867 and attested for the 5th Lancers at Stockport on 12 August 1884. He transferred to the Unattached List as a Farrier Sergeant Major on 14 March 1892, and then to the 9th Lancers as Staff Sergeant Farrier on 15 December 1897. He was specially promoted to Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant on 20 May 1898, for services with the Tirah Expeditionary Force, and was discharged in this rank, medically unfit, on 30 May 1905, after 20 years and 292 days’ service. He saw further service at home during the Great War.

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