Military Related
Lot 1355 SESSION 4 (John Chapman Collection, 4.30pm Tuesday) Military Related
Estimate $3,000
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SOLD $2,800
FAMILY GROUP: Father. Victoria Local Forces Long and Efficient Service Medal 1881-1893, first type. A.Blannin 1880. Impressed. Son. Queen's South Africa Medal, 1899 - five bars - Cape Colony; Orange Free State; Transvaal; South Africa 1901; South Africa 1902. 1447 Corpl A.L.Blannin Victorian M.R. Impressed. Very fine - extremely fine.
Alfred Blannin (1844-1889) Captain Collingwood Rifle Corps. In 1860 he was awarded a medal for general scholarship
at Belle Vue Academy near Geelong. Blannin joined the Collingwood Rifle Company in 1862, then the Local Military
Forces in 1864. In 1873 he became a member of the Victorian Rifle Association. He visited England in 1876 with the
Victorian Rifle Team. On his return he wrote the book 'Hasty Notes of a Flying Trip with the Victorian Rifle Team
to England and America in 1876', Melbourne, 1877. He was given the National Rifle Association medal in 1880, and
was co-founder of the Pipe Clay Club which became the Naval and Military Club. He was a commissioned Major in 1882.
Together with National Rifle Association medal in silver (48mm) uninscribed, cased, and Victoria Local Forces
officers brass belt buckle. Alfred Lyndhurst Blannin (son of Alfred Blannin) sergeant 5th Mounted Rifles Victorian
Contingent.
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