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Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1604 Pte. Sl. Barthorpe. 63rd. Regt.) minor edge bruise other...
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Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1604 Pte. Sl. Barthorpe. 63rd. Regt.) minor edge bruise otherwise nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Samuel Barthorpe was born at Ragnall, Nottinghamshire, in 1849 and attested for service in 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment at Mansfield on 9 December 1869, before transferring to the 63rd Regiment, at Cork, Ireland, on 20 June 1870. His regiment embarked for Alexandria on 7 October 1870, and thence to Bombay, serving in Gwalior and Umballa. His regiment served in the closing stages of the first phase of the Afghan War, joining the Kandahar Field Force at Quetta. Barthorpe remained at Jullundur with the ‘service companies’ of his regiment and was posted to Kala Abdulla, before returning to Bombay where he embarked for England on 10 November 1881. He left the army shortly after his return to the U.K., and by 1911 he was the inn keeper at the Butcher’s Arms, Laneham, Lincolnshhire. He died at Retford, Nottinghamshire, in 1932. Sold with copied research.
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Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1604 Pte. Sl. Barthorpe. 63rd. Regt.) minor edge bruise otherwise nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Samuel Barthorpe was born at Ragnall, Nottinghamshire, in 1849 and attested for service in 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment at Mansfield on 9 December 1869, before transferring to the 63rd Regiment, at Cork, Ireland, on 20 June 1870. His regiment embarked for Alexandria on 7 October 1870, and thence to Bombay, serving in Gwalior and Umballa. His regiment served in the closing stages of the first phase of the Afghan War, joining the Kandahar Field Force at Quetta. Barthorpe remained at Jullundur with the ‘service companies’ of his regiment and was posted to Kala Abdulla, before returning to Bombay where he embarked for England on 10 November 1881. He left the army shortly after his return to the U.K., and by 1911 he was the inn keeper at the Butcher’s Arms, Laneham, Lincolnshhire. He died at Retford, Nottinghamshire, in 1932. Sold with copied research.
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