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A Scarce Postmaster's campaign medal pair for service on the North West Frontier of India 1896-97 & later during the Third Afghan War 1919: Postmaster Clement Levlin Charles Fox, Postal Department  A Scarce Postmaster's campaign medal pair for service on the North West Frontier of India 1896-97 & later during the Third Afghan War 1919: Postmaster Clement Levlin Charles Fox, Postal Department  A Scarce Postmaster's campaign medal pair for service on the North West Frontier of India 1896-97 & later during the Third Afghan War 1919: Postmaster Clement Levlin Charles Fox, Postal Department  A Scarce Postmaster's campaign medal pair for service on the North West Frontier of India 1896-97 & later during the Third Afghan War 1919: Postmaster Clement Levlin Charles Fox, Postal Department  A Scarce Postmaster's campaign medal pair for service on the North West Frontier of India 1896-97 & later during the Third Afghan War 1919: Postmaster Clement Levlin Charles Fox, Postal Department 

A Scarce Postmaster's campaign medal pair for service on the North West Frontier of India 1896-97 & later during the Third Afghan War 1919: Postmaster Clement Levlin Charles Fox, Postal Department 

- India General Service 1895. Vic 'Punjab Frontier 97-8' (Post Master Mr. C. L. Fox Postl. Dept.)
- India General Service 1908-35. GV I 'Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919' (C. L. C. Fox. Postal Dept.)

Clement Levlin Charles Fox, son of Charles Levlin Fox (an Apothecary H.M.'s 94th Regiment of Foot - post 1881 2nd Bn Connaught Rangers - & later in 1891 Chemist & Druggist, Multan, Punjab, India), who married the widow Ann McKinnar (sic) at Mean Mir Cantonment, Lahore, on 3 October 1862. Clement was born at Cawnpore Cantonment, India circa 1868, and where he was baptized at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cawnpore in 1869. Clement served as Postmaster during British operations on the Punjab Frontier from 10 June 1897 to 6 April 1898. Appointed Postmaster in Bombay from 1914-16, The Civil and Military Gazette of 11 July 1917 later records Fox as ‘Postmaster, Quetta, and to act as Postmaster, Delhi’. On 7 January 1918, Clement - a bachelor - married Ada Violet Hennessey - a widow - at the Catholic Cathedral, Lawrence Road, Lahore on 7 January 1918. Clement served as Postmaster with the Postal Department on the North West Frontier during the Third Anglo-Afghan War, for which  he received his second campaign medal. Clement last appears listed in any edition of 'Thackers Directory' in 1918, under 2 x entries showing him respectively as Postmaster at Quetta, and as Postmaster at Delhi. Clement Levlin Charles Fox is recorded to have died at Dehra Dun, United Provinces, India on 28 November 1937, cause of death shown as heart failure. Clement was born the next day at Dehra Dun on. 28 November 1937. His death was recorded under the name of Charles Leonel Fox (sic) aged 75 (sic) years 'Postal Dep (retired), as there is nil evidence of any other C L Fox having worked with the Indian Postal Department in same era 1880-1937, it is evident that in death, Clement Levlin Charles Fox, has become a silent victim in perpetuity to clerical error!

Condition: About EF

Code: 26357

Reserved