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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] Medal sale at Spink.
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:44:22 +0100
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Thelma -

Thank you for posting this.

I think it very sad whenever I see the actual holder of a VC or his
descendants selling the medal.

On looking at the prices achieved one can see the temptation, which in some
cases may necessitate a sale. Perhaps in this case we should follow the
USA's example and forbid the sale of VCs and GCs.

It says a great deal for the Ghurkhas, who must have a higher proportion of
VCs than any other regiments, that this is the first to find its way onto
the open market.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia

From: "Thelma Bliss" <>
>
> "A Victoria Cross, the United Kingdom's highest military decoration
> sold, along with 12 other medals, for $243,366 (132,250 British pounds)
> at Spink in London on July 22. The Victoria Cross had been awarded to
> Subedar-Major and Honorary Captain Agansing Rai of the 5th Royal Gurkha
> Rifles for his courage in leading attacks, under fire, to recapture
> from the Japanese a key position in Burma in 1944. It is the only
> Victoria Cross awarded to a Nepalese soldier that has been offered at
> auction.
>
> Unlike in the United States, where it is illegal to sell this country's
> highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, there is a long
> tradition in the U.K. of selling medals. <snip>

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