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Victory Medal to officer

Victory Medal (GV) 
Named:  Capt. J. Hamilton

Unresearched.  NVF.

15 GBP

Plaque named Thomas Fryer 

Name scratched but clear.  Several possible including a Canadian DCM winner and a first day of the Somme casualty.

EG:  3/8311 Sjt T. Fryer  (Leeds), DCM

”For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a withdrawal, when he rallied a large portion of his company after they had been bombed out of a position on the left flank, and led them forward, retaking the lost position and thereby preventing the enemy from getting in behind the battalion.  Later
he was wounded.”  (LG, 3.9.18)

50 GBP

British War Medal to officer

BWM (GV)
Named: Lieut. H. Knight

Naming is with serifs which indicates a non-British officer.  Unresearched.  No ribbon.  
NVF

25 GBP

British War Medal to Reverend

BWM (GV)
Named:  Rev. S. Band

NVF.  Toned dark.

50 GBP

IGS 1854 Waziristan 1894-5 to Border Regiment

Indian General Service Medal 1854 with one bar:  Waziristan 1894-5
Named: 2419 Pte J. Norton 2nd. Bn. Border Regt.

Generally fine on original ribbon.  A good looking medal.  Unresearched. 

100 GBP

IGS Hazara 1888 to Northumberland Fusiliers

Indian General Service Medal 1854 with one bar: Hazara 1888
Named:  285 Lce. Corp. W. Buckin 2nd Bn.  North'd. Fus.

Only five British battalions took part in the "Black Mountains Expedition".

Generally fine, on original ribbon. Unresearched.  A good looking medal.

100 GBP

BWM to Lt Colonel VD, Surgeon IMD & IMS, also served in Sudan 1885.  
Famous Scottish family of Doctors. 

British War Medal (GV)
Named: Lt. Col. J.F. MacLaren

Son of Dr John MacLaren and Jane Craige Clark, Kirkmichael, Blairgowrie, Scotland (I believe that this is near Perth).  Born 22 Oct. 1854.  MB CM Ed. 1877.  Surg. 2 April 1881.  SM 2 April 1893.  Lt-Col 2 April 1901.  S. List 15 Oct. 1908.  Reserves 24 June 1911.  Recalled for Great War.

From 1920 "War Service of Officers of the Army etc":

MacLaren JF (Lt-Col. ret. Indian Medical Service).  Served Sudan Expedition 1885 - Suakin.  Action of Hasheen and operations at Tamai.  Medal with clasps; bronze star.

From "The History of Blairgowrie" (John A.R. Macdonald, 1899)

George G. MacLaren - a distinguished military surgeon, served over 22 years in India; for many years Medical Supervisor of the important Civil Station of Dehra Doon, NW Province, who performed in 1880 a successful operation on the right eye of Yakoob Khan, ex-Ameer of Afghanistan; retired on a pension with honorary rant of Lt-Colonel.

James F. MacLaren (brother of the above) - appointed 1881, Surgeon to HM 2nd (PWO) Goorkha regiment, permanently stationed during the peace at Dehra Doon, NW Province.  (It was this regiment who so markedly distinguished itself along with the 92nd Highlanders, at the battle of Candahar, under Sir F. Roberts, during the Afrghan War.).

Awarded Volunteer Decoration 21 June 1901.

MIC confirms WW1 service as BWM only.  Issued by the Govt. of India.

EF

75 GBP

CSM with two bars to 10th Gurkhas

Campaign Service Medal with two bars: [Borneo], [Malay Peninsula]
Named: 21154004 Rfn Thamprasad Rai 1/10 G.R.

First battalion the 10th Gurkha Regiment.  On original ribbon

60 GBP

CSM with two bars to 7th Gurkhas

Campaign Service Medal with two bars: [Borneo], [Malay Peninsula]
Named: 2149658 Rfn. Ramprasad Rai 1/7

First battalion the 7th Gurkha Regiment.  On original ribbon

60 GBP

GSM (GVI) with one bar to 6th Gurkhas

General Service Medal [Malaya] (GVI)
Named: 4143088 Sgt. Anaram Thapa 6 G.R.

No ribbon.

30 GBP

GSM (GVI) with one bar to 3nd Gurkhas

General Service Medal [Malaya] (GVI)
Named: 2133270 Rfn Kharkabahadur Rana 2 G.R.

On original ribbon.

30 GBP

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