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A GOOD SPECIAL SERVICE OFFICERS 1896 DONGOLA EXPEDITION AND NORTH WEST FRONTIER GROUP AWARDED TO A CAPTAIN, LATER LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896 ‘LT. H. G. WALKER. ASST. SUPT. A. SIGN.’, INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895, CLASP, WAZIRISTAN 1901-2 ‘CAPTN. H. G. WALKER, 9TH BOB: INF:’ OFFICIAL CORRECTION TO FIRST INITIAL; KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 CLASP, FIRKET, UNNAMED AS ISSUED

Henry George Walker was born on 22 September 1866, and was gazetted Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 25 August 1886; transferred to the Indian Army, 28 June 1888; wing officer 12th Bombay Infantry, 5 July 1889; Captain, 25 August 1897; double company commander, 9th (later 109th) Bombay Infantry, 17 July 1901; attached 1st Bombay Grenadiers as officiating 2nd in command, 17 August 1902; Major, 109th Bombay Infantry, 25 August 1904; 2nd in command, 26 July 1906; Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant 109th Bombay Infantry, 7 November 1911. Served in the Dongola expedition of 1896, as Assistant Superintendent of Army Signalling, Suakin Force, North West Frontier of India 1901-02, Waziristan,; East Africa 1903-04, Somaliland operations (Medal with clasp).

Condition GVF.

Code J2592        Price £895