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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 411

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), E.VII.R. (Voltr. E. J. Vint South Andaman Voltr. Rifles), officially engraved naming, official corrections, very fine

Only 15 Medals of any type ever issued to this small unit.

Edmund James Vint was born at Madras on 14 May 1869, the son of Charles and Harriett Vint. Baptised by the Garrison Chaplain at St Mary's, Madras in October 1869, he moved to the Andaman Islands circa 1886. By 1895 he was an Assistant Accountant in the Treasury Office, Andaman Islands and was Head Accountant by 1905. Vint took his Medal as per Indian Army Order 166 of 1906 - the ony such award that year. He died by self-administered poison whilst 'temporarily insane' in January 1910 and is buried in Port Blair.

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Estimate
£160 to £200

Starting price
£130