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Pair: Police Constable Garuba Gomba, Northern Nigeria Police, late Northern Nigeria...
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Pair: Police Constable Garuba Gomba, Northern Nigeria Police, late Northern Nigeria Regiment Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria (839 Pte. Garaba Gomba. N. Nigeria Regt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, West Africa 1906 (1420 P.C. Garuba Gomba. N.N.P.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine, the last rare to unit and a scarce double issue (2) £360-£440 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2017. Garuba Gomba served with the 2nd Battalion, Northern Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force, in the operations against the Emir of Yola under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel T. L. N. Morland, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, August to September 1901. He saw further service in the expedition under Morland’s command to Bornu, 1 February to 16 May 1902 (also entitled to the clasp ‘N. Nigeria 1902’). Subsequently joining the police, he saw further service with the Northern Nigeria Police during the operations in West Africa 1906, one of only 6 Policemen to receive this clasp. Sold with copied medal roll extracts, the last of which is annotated ‘Retired’.
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Pair: Police Constable Garuba Gomba, Northern Nigeria Police, late Northern Nigeria Regiment Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria (839 Pte. Garaba Gomba. N. Nigeria Regt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, West Africa 1906 (1420 P.C. Garuba Gomba. N.N.P.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine, the last rare to unit and a scarce double issue (2) £360-£440 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2017. Garuba Gomba served with the 2nd Battalion, Northern Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force, in the operations against the Emir of Yola under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel T. L. N. Morland, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, August to September 1901. He saw further service in the expedition under Morland’s command to Bornu, 1 February to 16 May 1902 (also entitled to the clasp ‘N. Nigeria 1902’). Subsequently joining the police, he saw further service with the Northern Nigeria Police during the operations in West Africa 1906, one of only 6 Policemen to receive this clasp. Sold with copied medal roll extracts, the last of which is annotated ‘Retired’.
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