Lot 543
543
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus … Read more
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lt. Col. R. Bleazby, 2nd Bn. R.W. Surr. R.), extremely fine

Details
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lt. Col. R. Bleazby, 2nd Bn. R.W. Surr. R.), extremely fine
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

Colonel Robert Bleazby was born in August 1843 and gazetted to the Royal West Surrey Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1861. Advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1884, he was Second-in-Command of the 2nd Battalion during the Burma operations of 1885-87, and assumed overall command in May 1888. Bleazby was promoted to Colonel on his retirement in May 1890.