United Kingdom. An Efficiency Medal, Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps

Item #GB7030

$151

George V with Ceylon Scroll (RFN: R.M.L. WILKINS. C.P.R.C.). Naming is engraved in large capitals. Light contact, additional six years' service bar on its original ribbon with pinback, better than very fine.

 

Footnote: The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps was a regiment of the Ceylon Defence Force, which existed between 1900 and 1949. It was a volunteer (reserve) regiment based in Kandy, made up of only Europeans that were tea and rubber planters of the hills of Sri Lanka. The regiment deployed personnel to fight in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War.