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An update on the two bronze QSAs sold by DNW yesterday

From the next DNW auction


Picture courtesy of DNW

QSA Bronze (268 Syce Chirinaswamy S. & T. Corps ...bad Dist.)

Small area of erasure to unit.

Edge bruise, very fine. £80-120

Madras Command Secunderbad District

268 Syce Chinnaswamy DNW 2013 £100
Aberdeen £350
Neate 2015 £160

From Neate, March 2003

QSA bronze (13 Syce Bhaggoo 1st Bo Lcrs)
VF+ £375

Gary Neate suggests a rare award as the regiment was serving in China in 1900. Probably attached to the 3rd Bengal Cavalry.

Another from the next DNW auction:



QSA (789 Dhooly Bearer Khayoo. S. & T. Corps)

769 Dhooly Bearer Khayoo (Madras District-Bangalore): present at Belfast, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith & Laing's Nek. Last recorded at Philip Burman's in 2006 where it sold for £220. The same unit took part in the Relief of Chitral.

There is also, in the same auction, the silver medal to 2453 Sowar Hushyar Ali Khan, 2nd Bombay Lancers, clasps Transvaal & South Africa 1902. ( No lot number as yet) Last sold at QC Militaria for £375. Deep pockets may be required since a similar medal to the same Regiment hammered in the rooms of DNW in 2013 for £750. (Although Gary Neate sold one in 2015 for £395)