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SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
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An interesting Second Burma war medal awarded to a Chinaman,
Lieutenant John E. Milton, alias Fatqua Ho Chee, 9th Madras Native
Infantry
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Lieutt. John E. Milton, 9th
Regt. M.N.I.) extremely fine £1200-1500
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, one of the British officials of
the Honourable East India Company, serving in what later became the Treaty Port
of Foo Chow, in China, was a certain John Elphinstone. In the pursuit of his
duties he became friendly with a Mandarin of the Manchu dynasty, named Ho
Foo, who had a son called Ho Chee.
Subsequently Ho Chee became a Christian and took the name John Milton Ho
Chee. When Elphinstone retired from the service, he brought the Chinaman with
him to England as his personal secretary. The merchant purchased Ford Manor,
near East Grinstead in Sussex. Ho Chee settled in the nearby village of
Dormansland where he built a house called ‘Normans’. He married Charlotte
Lowdell, daughter of a well known local family and, on 12 June 1828, they had a
son, baptised John Elphinstone Fatqua Ho Chee, followed by Jane in 1830, James
in 1832, and Letitia in 1835.
The elder Ho Chee became a respected member of the local community and when his patron Elphinstone died in 1845, he left Ford
Manor to the Chinaman in appreciation of his services. The Manor was sold in 1856 and the Ho Chee family continued to live at
‘Normans’, where John senior died in March 1869. In the year following Ho Chee’s death, his widow built two semi-detached Alms
Houses near the crossroads of Dormansland, which were presented to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Lingfield in gratitude for the
way her husband had been welcomed and treated by the people of the district. The houses still stand today and continue to fulfill their
original purpose, known as the Charlotte Hochee Almshouses, a bust of Ho Chee being mounted in the porch of the buildings.
In 1844 John junior was nominated, at Elphinstone’s recommendation, to be a Cadet in the Honourable East India Company’s service.
His cadet’s certificate, signed by his father, John Milton Hochee, bore the name John Elphinstone Milton, perhaps in an effort to
disguise his true parentage. He attended the company’s Addiscombe College from 1845 to December 1846, and was admitted to the
service as Ensign. He arrived in Madras in April 1847, where he was posted to the 9th Regiment of Native Infantry. He was promoted to
Lieutenant in February 1852 and the following year went with his regiment as part of the expedition into Burma to punish the ruler for
repeated treaty violations.
The 9th M.N.I., together with the 35th M.N.I and a wing of the 80th Foot, formed the left column of the attack on Rangoon on 11 April
1852, and participated in the taking of the Great Pagoda, which had been heavily fortified. The regiment had 3 men killed and 2
officers and 18 men wounded. Lieutenant Milton retired from the service in August 1855, and died at his home in Wimpole Street,
London, on 22 April 1883. The announcement of his death in The Times, 24 April 1883, read: ‘John Elphinstone Fatqua Hochee,
commonly known as John Elphinstone Milton, eldest son of the late John and Charlotte Hochee, of Nortons, Lingfield, Surrey, aged 54’.
Sold with further research, including several photographs of the family tomb with inscriptions to Charlotte Hochee, widow of John
Hochee; to John Elphinstone F. Hochee, their eldest son; and to Ann, their third daughter. Also photographs of the almshouses and bust
of John Hochee.
715
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Gunner M. Campbell, Artillery) good very fine £350-400
716
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (1933 Pte. W. Campbell, 3 Bn. Rif. Bde.) good very fine
£160-200
717
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (100 J. Campbell, 71st Highdrs) contemporary re-engraved naming,
good very fine £80-100
718
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Bhootan (182 Gunr. T. Campbell, 3rd By. 25th Bde. R.A.) nearly extremely fine
£200-250
719
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Looshai (Sepoy Chamoo Thapa, 44th Regt. N.I.) claw tightened, marks to back-
strap, minor contact marks, good very fine £150-200
720
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Jowaki 1877-8 (Drummer Roostum Khan, 1-4th Regt. N.I.) contact marks, good
fine £90-120
721
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (477 Private F. Burrey, 2d Bn. R.W. Surr. R.) nearly extremely fine
£120-160
722
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Asst. Apothy. F. A. Campbell, I.M.D.) nearly extremely fine
£120-160
723
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7, bronze issue (Dooly Bearer Chandka, 23d Bo. Infy.) scratches to
obverse, nearly very fine £50-70
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