Volunteer Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies). GV issue (Volunteer A. J. Germany. N. W. Ry. Vol. Rifles.)

Medal verification: The award of the Volunteer Long Service Medal to Volunteer A. J. Germany of the North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles, was published in Indian Army Order No. 624 of 1911

Important: The recipients civilian occupation at the time of his death in was 'Driver' (Locomotive Train Driver) employed with the North Western Railway Company Ltd

Official records show that at the time of his death he was

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In train No. 13 Up while on sick leave and travelling from Delhi to Bathinda

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Cause of death was recorded as 'Natural causes, malignant malaria'. Arthur was subsequently burried at Bathinda, Punjab, India

Austin James Germany son of James Germany (Hotel Proprietor, E.I.R. Hotel, Cawnpore) and Mary Ann Germany, was born at Cawnpore, India, on, 7 April 1875. On 19 December 1901, Austin married Edith Gertrude Johnson Lemar Goff (whose father was another Engine Driver, with the E.I.Railway), at Jamalpur, India (where the the famous workshops of the East Indian Railway Company Ltd, were located). At the time of his marriage in 1901, Austin was already recorded as a 'Driver'. Driver (IV Class), Austin James Germany died at Bathinda, Punjab, India, on, 15 May 1926.

North Western Railway: The North-Western State Railway (NWR) was formed in January 1886 from the merger of the Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway, the Indus Valley State Railway, the Punjab Northern State Railway, the eastern section of the Sind-Sagar Railway and the southern section of the Sind-Pishin State Railway Later renamed the North Western Railway, by 1905 it was the longest railway in British India, that was under one administration and was the strategic railway of the North-West Frontier, province. In 1947, one part became the nucleus of Pakistan's railways, with 4976 of the old system's 6861 miles lying within the new state; the part lying in India was reorganised and renamed as Eastern Punjab Railway

A choice confirmed 'Train Driver's' long service medal for service with the North Western Railway Volunteers in India

Condition: GVF

Code: 22767