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Pair: Corporal E. Forde, 2nd West India Regiment East and West Africa 1887-1900, 4...
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Pair: Corporal E. Forde, 2nd West India Regiment East and West Africa 1887-1900, 4 clasps, 1891-2, 1893-94, 1897-98, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (3171. Corpl. E. Forde. 2/W.I. Rgt.); Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued, minor edge nicks, good very fine (2) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2018 (East and West Africa Medal only). Edward Forde was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1866 and attested there for General Service in the West India Regiments on 18 August 1885, his complexion being described as ‘black’. He served with the 2nd Battalion in West Africa in the expeditions in the Gambia against Chief Fodder Cabbah, 29 December 1891 to 5 February 1892; during the operations on the Gambia River in the expedition against Chief Fodeh Silah, 22 February to 11 March 1894; in the expedition under Major-General Sir Francis Scott against the Ashantis under King Prempeh, 7 December 1895 to 17 January 1896; in the expeditions to the hinterland of Lagos and the northern territories of the Gold Coast, September 1897 to 14 June 1898; and in Sierra Leone during the ‘hut tax’ war, 18 February 1898 to 9 March 1899. He was discharged at Jamaica on 21 July 1902, after 16 years and 338 days’ service. Sold with copied attestation and discharge papers; and copied medal roll extracts.
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Pair: Corporal E. Forde, 2nd West India Regiment East and West Africa 1887-1900, 4 clasps, 1891-2, 1893-94, 1897-98, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (3171. Corpl. E. Forde. 2/W.I. Rgt.); Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued, minor edge nicks, good very fine (2) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2018 (East and West Africa Medal only). Edward Forde was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1866 and attested there for General Service in the West India Regiments on 18 August 1885, his complexion being described as ‘black’. He served with the 2nd Battalion in West Africa in the expeditions in the Gambia against Chief Fodder Cabbah, 29 December 1891 to 5 February 1892; during the operations on the Gambia River in the expedition against Chief Fodeh Silah, 22 February to 11 March 1894; in the expedition under Major-General Sir Francis Scott against the Ashantis under King Prempeh, 7 December 1895 to 17 January 1896; in the expeditions to the hinterland of Lagos and the northern territories of the Gold Coast, September 1897 to 14 June 1898; and in Sierra Leone during the ‘hut tax’ war, 18 February 1898 to 9 March 1899. He was discharged at Jamaica on 21 July 1902, after 16 years and 338 days’ service. Sold with copied attestation and discharge papers; and copied medal roll extracts.
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