CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 856
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel John Talbot, 6th Cavalry (Jacob’s Hores), late Royal Munster Fusiliers
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (2d Lieut. J. Talbot, R. Muns. Fus.); 1914 STAR (Lt: Col: J. Talbot, 6/Cavalry); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORYMEDALS, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. J. Talbot) very fine or better (4)
£300-350
John Talbot was born on 4 February 1868, son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Talbot, R.A. He was first commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers on 14 September 1887 and served with that regiment in Burma (Medal with clasp). He transferred to the Indian Army in 24 February 1890, and served with the 6th Bombay Light Cavalry (Jacob’s Horse) during the Great War (Despatches London Gazette 28 May 1918). Sold with three copied photographs.
See Lot 408 for his father’s Indian Mutiny medal. Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot, seated. 857 Pair: Driver C. Guillod, Natal Field Artillery, late Weenen Yeomanry
SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Sergt. Guillod, Weenen Yeomy.); NATAL 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Dvr. C. Guillod, A Battery N.F.A.), generally extremely fine, the first rare (2)
£600-800 Believed to be a pair of awards.
Just 19 Medals were issued to the Weenen Yeomanry. The unit was originally based at Weston under Lieutenant Popham, but moved to Gretna Green, near Mpafana, from whence it carried out patrols - see the recently published For God, Queen and Colony, by Terry Sole, for further details.
858
Three: Admiral A. Y. Moggridge, Royal Navy
EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Sub. Lt., R.N., H.M.S. “Coquette”); BRITISHWARMEDAL 1914-20 (Adml.); KHEDIVE’S STAR 1882, unnamed, first and last mounted as worn, good very fine and better (3)
£340-380
Arthur Yerbury Moggridge was born on 20 September 1858 and entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet in 1872. Appointed a Midshipman in 1874 and promoted to Sub-Lieutenant in May 1878. Promoted to Lieutenant in December 1882 when on Coquette, on which ship he saw service during the Egyptian War of 1882. He was promoted to Commander in 1895 and Captain in 1900. Moggridge served as A.D.C. to the King, 1908-09 and was advanced to Rear-Admiral in July 1909. Appointed Rear-Admiral in the Home Fleet, Portsmouth Division, November 1911-November 1912. During the war he was promoted to Vice-Admiral in April 1915 and retired with the rank of Admiral on 15 July 1915. Admiral Moggridge died on 13 November 1946. With copied service papers and other research.
859 Pair: Able Seaman J. W. Clowsley, Royal Navy
EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (J. W. Clowsley, A.B., H.M.S. Carysfort); KHEDIVE’S STAR, 1884-6, good very fine and better (2)
£240-280
James William Clowsley was born in Clapham, London in January 1858 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1874. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in December 1876 and to Able Seaman in September 1880, though several times confined to the cells, he served aboard H.M.S. Carysfort from April 1884 until January 1886, including active employment in the Suakin operations of 1885. Clowsley was discharged ashore, time expired, on his return to the U.K. in February 1886.
860 Pair: Private W. Langley, Shopshire Light Infantry
HONG KONG PLAGUE 1894, silver issue (Private W. Langley, S.L.I.), with silver brooch bar inscribed, ‘Ti Pin Shang Plague 1894’; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (2988 Pte. W. Langley, 2 Shrops. Lt. Infy.) some edge bruising, good very fine (2) £1300-1600
‘Ti Pin Shang’ is a corruption of ‘Taipingshan’, a district situated in the western half of the City of Victoria on Hong Kong Island. Much of the district was known for its primitive, crowded and unsanitary living conditions - which proved to be the ideal breeding ground for the plague.
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