GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY
“There sits by your side on the Staff, Sir, a man we are proud to own! He was struck down first in the battle, but was never heard to groan; If I’ve done ought to deserve it,”- then the General smiled “Of course,”- “Give back to the Tenth their Colonel- the Man on the old White Horse!
“If ever a man bore up, Sir, as a soldier should, with pluck, And fought with a savage sorrow the demon of cursed ill-luck- That man he sits beside you! Give us back, with his wounds and scars, The man who has sorely suffered, and is loved by the Tenth Hussars!”
Then a cheer went up from his comrades, and echoed across the sand, And was borne on the wings of mercy to the heart of his native land, Where the Queen in her Throne will hear it, and the Colonel Prince will praise The words of a simple soldier just uttered by Trooper Hayes. Let the moralist stoop to mercy, that balm of all souls that live; For better than all forgetting, is the wonderful word “Forgive!”
The “Man on the old White Horse” was of course General Baker Pasha, who had been dismissed from the British Army in 1875, for allegedly indecently assaulting a young lady in a railway carriage. The appearance of this poem in Punch, which was widely reprinted throughout almost every paper in the country due to the very opportune references to him, did much for his rehabilitation in the last years of his life.
The following year, on 13 March 1885, Hayes was personally given the Distinguished Conduct Medal by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. It was the only D.C.M. won by the 10th for the battle of El-Teb. Hayes was appointed Lance-Corporal in March 1887 but reverted to Private three months later. He was discharged from the 10th Hussars at his own request on 6 August 1887, on payment of £21. He joined the Scots Guards shortly afterwards as a Musician, for 12 years. He was discharged medically unfit on 21 April 1899, and died sometime in about 1926. The group is sold with two original copies of The Illustrated London News for 15 March and 22 March 1884, both in original dust wrappers and both containing Melton Prior engravings of the battle of El-Teb including the charge of the 10th Hussars.
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A Second Boer War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant M. Kenny, Royal Irish Regiment, late Connaught Rangers
DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL, V.R. (3335 Pte. M. Kenny, 1st Conn. Rangers); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (3335 Pte. M. Kenny, 1st Connaught Rang.); 1914-15 STAR (3901 Cpl. M. Kenney, R. Ir. Regt.); VICTORYMEDAL 1914-19 (3901 A-Sjt. M. Kenney, R. Ir. Regt.); together with an erased British War Medal 1914-20, note variation in surname, very fine (5)
£2000-2400 D.C.M. London Gazette 8 February 1901.
Buller’s despatch of 30 March 1900: ‘Private Kenny gallantly rescued a wounded man of the Imperial Light Horse, who was exposed to heavy fire on February 23rd 1900.’
Michael Kenny was born in Bray Co. Wicklow. As a Private in the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers Kenny won his D.C.M. for distinguished conduct at the battle of Pieter’s Hill. The Connaught Rangers, as part of the Irish Brigade, suffered 140 casualties in this action. One of 12 D.C.M’s. awarded to the Connaught Rangers for the 2nd Boer War. Kenny then served at Colenso and later served in India at a Boer War P.O.W. camp. In the Great War (name spelt ‘Kenney’ on m.i.c. and medals) he served in the Royal Irish Regiment, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 September 1915. Later served in Mesopotamia where he was declared ‘missing’. Later serving in the Worcestershire Regiment he was discharged after the war. Believed to have been additionally awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal.
With a copy of a hand painted photograph of the recipient as a Corporal in the Royal Irish Regiment wearing six (?) medals. With copied research.
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