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PRE WW1 BRITISH 1878-1880 AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL BAR KANDAHAR

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Offered is an original 1878-1880 Afghanistan Campaign medal. 36mm wide circular silver medal with claw and ribbon bar suspension, with campaign bar ‘KANDAHAR’; 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. Correct chisel engraved named in running script to 411. GUNR. G. PORTER. C. BATT: 2ND BDE. R.A. on original ribbon. The medal was instituted on 19 March 1881 to be awarded to participants in the Second Afghan War of 1878 to 1880.
 
Gunner George Porter served with ‘C’ Battery, 2nd Brigade, Royal Artillery. He is shown as having earned his medal & clasp for service, dated 7th June 1883.
 
C Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
C/2 R. A. arrived at Kandahar in the spring of 1880, where two of the guns proceeded to Kelat-i-Ghilzai to reinforce the garrison there. Those guns still at Kandahar helped to cover soldiers returning from the disaster at Maiwand at the end of July, and defended the citadal while it was besieged by Ayub Khan’s forces. On 16th August the battery was employed in the shelling of Deh Khoja. The guns at Kelat-i-Ghilzai joined Roberts’ relieving column on the 24th and the battery was reunited on the 31st at Kandahar. On the next day’s battle they were involved in shelling the village of Gandi Mullah, and they returned to India in October.

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Weight 0.1 kg
Dimensions 10 × 5 × 3 cm

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