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Offered is an original Afghanistan Campaign 1878-1880 medal to Private T. Luck, who died on Enterrric Fever in Afghanistan on the 13th June 1879. 36mm wide circular silver medal with claw and ribbon bar suspension; the face with the veiled crowned head and shoulders of Queen Victoria facing left, circumscribed ‘VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX (Victoria Queen and Empress); the reverse with a column on the march in a mountainous landscape, an elephant bearing a cannon to the fore, circumscribed above ‘AFGHANISTAN’ and dated ‘1878-79-80’ below; sloped engraved named to: 1787 PTE. T. LUCK. 10TH RL. HUSSARS. on correct ribbon. The medal was instituted on 19 March 1881 to be awarded to participants in the Second Afghan War of 1878 to 1880.