A scarce by nationality 'Australian' pair of Indian service commemorative and long service medals: Volunteer Joseph Loftus Odgers East India Railway Volunteer Rifles

- Jubilee Medal 1935
- Volunteer Long Service (India). GV issue (Voltr. J. L. Odgers E. I. Ry. Vl. Rfls.)

Medals verification: Both medals confirmed as entitled per below cited sources:

- Jubilee Medal: Jubilee Medal Roll (India) Chief Draftsman E.I. Railway
- Volunteer LSM: Indian Army Order 290 of June 1914

Joseph Johnston Loftus Odgers, second son of the Reverend Joseph Montrose Loftus Odgers (a native of Melbourne, who died as a Missionary in Zanzibar, 1890), and Margaretta Hannah Odgers (a native of Melbourne), was born at Fremantle, Western Australia in 1880. He joined the East Indian Railway Company in December 1899 and was married at St Mary's, Jamalpur in October 1902. Odgers was awarded his L. S. Medal as per IAO 290 of June 1914 and by 1922 was Head Draftsman in the Electrical Department of the Railway and also Assistant Master at the Jamalpur Apprentices Technical School. Awarded the 1935 Jubilee Medal as Chief Draftsman of the Railways, he died at 102 Divinity Road, Oxford on 26 January 1957

Sold together with a large (weighty) quantity of hard-copy research

A scarce seen Indian Volunteers pair to a native Australian

Condition: About GVF

Code: 22798