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Armed Forces / Re: Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-80
« on: Wednesday 29 November 17 18:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hepatitis I know about as a paramedic (although a few different strains A, B C...), it has the potential to hit the liver pretty hard but some people get it and have no idea, in those days I wonder if a blood transfusion was the source? I can imagine parts of india back then being less than sterile environments.

Thanks again for the help. 

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Armed Forces / Re: Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-80
« on: Wednesday 29 November 17 17:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much for that Garen,

Really appreciate you taking the time to look for that information.

Not sure when he died but we found him and his wife in the 1911 census aged 56 years old.

That would be it, the india medal ribbon, we didn't know there was an additional medal. He must have left india for the Afghanistan campaign though as his medal from the march was in 1880.



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Armed Forces / Re: Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-80
« on: Wednesday 29 November 17 08:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

Interesting forum to read, my G Grandfather Private Charles Samuel Smith born 1854 (#1498 - 9th Lancers) was in the march from Kabul to Kandahar and has two medals, the one for the march and the other for Afghanistan service, the ribbon on the Afghanistan medal has an additional red stripe in the middle compared to the ones I see on the internet which havd red on the outsides and broader green patch in the middle not the evenly distributed red, green, red, green, red pattern my G Grandfather has, does anyone know why this is different?

I have looked at getting his service records but see that it needs a cheque for $30 pound which I can not do from overseas. Any other ways anyone can suggest of doing it?

I did the whole ancestry.com thing among many others including pay per document ect but couldn't find much on him regarding the military side of things, spent many hundreds on other sites putting together genealogy including him but couldn't get much more on him. He must have been posted to india after this like many others from this campaign as he got married there to an English women in India in Dec 1882 and must have been there for another 1-2 years as they had a child there before having a 2nd child in England in 1884. 

Thanks

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