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Pair: Captain F. L. Blosse, West India Regiment Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Eas...
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Pair: Captain F. L. Blosse, West India Regiment Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, 1897-98, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Capt. F. L. Blosse. 1/W.I.R.) unofficial retaining rod between clasps, and alteration to lugs to facilitate additional clasp, good very fine (2) £460-£550 --- Francis Lynch Blosse was born in November 1868, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry in May 1889. He transferred as lieutenant to the West India Regiment in November 1893, and suffered with fever in 1895. Blosse advanced to captain, and served in the Ashanti Expedition of 1896, in West Africa in 1897-98, and was employed in the Hinterland Operations in Sierra Leone. He served as a staff officer to the Governor of Sierra Leone and deputy assistant adjutant general. The ‘death occurred during Tuesday night, last week, of Captain Lynch Bloss [sic], of Moorcroft, Waterford, at the early age of 47 years. The deceased gentleman had not resided in the town, and died from pneumonia. Captain Bloss, in the early part of the war, went out to France and rendered useful service to his country in the Records Office.’ (Western Gazette, 26 February 1915 refers) Captain Blosse died in Lymington, Hampshire in February 1915. (MIC gives entitlement to 1914 Star, but no indication of it being issued or claimed) Sold with copied research.
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Pair: Captain F. L. Blosse, West India Regiment Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, 1897-98, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Capt. F. L. Blosse. 1/W.I.R.) unofficial retaining rod between clasps, and alteration to lugs to facilitate additional clasp, good very fine (2) £460-£550 --- Francis Lynch Blosse was born in November 1868, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry in May 1889. He transferred as lieutenant to the West India Regiment in November 1893, and suffered with fever in 1895. Blosse advanced to captain, and served in the Ashanti Expedition of 1896, in West Africa in 1897-98, and was employed in the Hinterland Operations in Sierra Leone. He served as a staff officer to the Governor of Sierra Leone and deputy assistant adjutant general. The ‘death occurred during Tuesday night, last week, of Captain Lynch Bloss [sic], of Moorcroft, Waterford, at the early age of 47 years. The deceased gentleman had not resided in the town, and died from pneumonia. Captain Bloss, in the early part of the war, went out to France and rendered useful service to his country in the Records Office.’ (Western Gazette, 26 February 1915 refers) Captain Blosse died in Lymington, Hampshire in February 1915. (MIC gives entitlement to 1914 Star, but no indication of it being issued or claimed) Sold with copied research.
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