CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
531
Pair: Assistant Apothecary J. Rehill
PUNJAB 1848-49, no clasp (Hosl. Appce. J. Rehill), officially engraved
naming; INDIAN MUTINY 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Asst. Apoth. J. Rehill),
very fine or better (2) £700-800
532
Four: Private M. Brown, 60th Rifles
SOUTH AFRICA 1834-53 (Malcolm Brown, 2nd Bn. 60th Rifles); INDIAN MUTINY 1857-59, no clasp (Malcolm Brown, 2nd
Batn. 60th Ryl. Rifles); CHINA 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Malcolm Brown, 2nd Bn. 60th Rl. Rifles); ARMY L.S. & G.
C., V.R., small letter reverse (2125 Malcolm Brown, 2nd Bn. 60 Rifles), edge bruising and contact marks but generally
very fine and a rare combination of awards (4) £1200-1400
Malcolm Brown was born at Kirkintulloch, Dumbarton and enlisted in the 60th Rifles in December 1844, aged 17 years. Confirmed on
all of the relevant rolls for the above described campaign awards, he was discharged in March 1866.
533
Three: Able Seaman Alex Collins, Royal Navy
BALTIC 1854-55 (Alex. Collins, AB. H.M.S. Arethusa) contemporary engraved naming; CRIMEA 1854-56 2 clasps,
Inkermann, Sebastopol (Alex. Collins, AB. HMS Arethusa) contemporary engraved naming, unofficial connection
between first and second clasp; TURKISH CRIMEA 1855, British issue (Alex. Collins, A.B., H.M.S. Arethusa) contemporary
engraved naming, pierced with ring suspension, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (3)
£320-360
Ex D.N.W. 5 December 1995.
534
Pair: Private Joseph Lester, 5th Dragoon Guards, later 3rd Dragoon Guards
CRIMEA 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (J. Lester, 5th Dragoon Gds.) officially impressed naming; TURKISH CRIMEA 1855,
British issue, unnamed, contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £400-450
Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including Parchment Certificate of Discharge, dated 18 August 1863; Parchment
Certificate of Admission as an Out-Pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, dated 19 August 1863; Certificate from the Lieutenant-
Governor & Secretary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, granting a Special Compassionate Campaign Pension, dated 23 April 1902; Army
Account Book, which also gives his military service and personal details; and his Monthly Settlements, Clothing Account, and Savings
Bank Account book for the period 1860-63.
Joseph Lester was born in the Parish of Camberwell, London, and enlisted into the 5th Dragoon Guards at London on 4 July 1854, aged
18. He served with the 5th Dragoon Guards in the ‘Eastern Campaign from the 15th June 1855 to the 5th June 1856, present at the
Capture of Sebastopol (Medal & Clasp)’. He landed at Bombay on 9 December 1857, and sometime transferred to the 3rd Dragoon
Guards, then serving in India. He was discharged at Ahmednuggur on 17 November 1862, returned to the U.K. and was there admitted
as an Out-Pensioner to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and awarded a pension of 8d per day for two years. He was still alive in April 1902,
when he was awarded a Special Compassionate Campaign Pension of 9d per day which he appears to have collected from the Station
Paymaster at Canterbury, Kent.
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