SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 77 78 79 80
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (1216 Pte. M. Davis, 2d Bn. R. Sco. Fus.) claw tightened but still slack, some edge bruising, very fine
£90-120 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (1966 Pte. J. Smith, 2d Bn. R. Sco. Fus.) good very fine £100-140 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (222 Pte. W. Milne 2d Bn. R. Muns. Fus.) good very fine £100-140 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Lt. Colonel F. Cochran, 1st Bn Hamps. R.) good very fine £400-500
Francis Cochran was born in June 1843 and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Wimbledon School. He entered Sandhurst in 1860 and was commissioned in the 37th Regiment on 8 July 1862. Remaining with the regiment throughout his military career, he obtained his company by purchase in May 1886. He entered India in 1866 and there enjoyed big game shooting and fishing. An accomplished shot, he won many prizes at the meetings of the Northern India Rifle Association. He returned to England in the early 1870’s, again winning several shooting trophies. After two years at Staff College, 1876-77, he was employed at the Intelligence Branch of the War Office, and afterwards employed as Garrison Instructor, first at York, then at Edinburgh, for five years. Whilst at Edinburgh he wrote, Handy Text Book on Military Law. In 1888 after succeeding to the command of the regiment, he served in Burma. He later published a pamphlet, The Hampshire Men in Burma in 1889 which described the operations.
In 1895, in the course of a speech, Lord Wolseley said of him: ‘If Burma is now comparatively quiet, it is thanks to men like Colonel Cochran, who took a distinguished part in settling the Northern part of Burma, and in putting down dacoiting - a very difficult operation, because that species of occupation seems to be the instinct of the people.’
Cochrane again served in India, 1891-94, before being appointed to the command of the district of Galway and thence, by Wolsely’s command, to Wimbledon where he remained until 1899. In late 1899 he was appointed Deputy Judge Advocate, a post he held until 1902 when he retired due to old age. Colonel Cochran died on 6 February 1914.
With copied obituary from The Hampshire Regimental Journal and other research. 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (1344 Pte. H. Stone, 1st Bn Hamps. R.) extremely fine £140-180 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (911 Pte. C. Moss, 2d Bn S. Wales Bord.) good very fine £140-180
With some copied research. INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Surgeon A. O. Evans, I.M.S.) renamed, good very fine £60-80
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (593 Pte. J. Griel, 2d Bn. Norf. R.) good very fine £120-160
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (No. R.A. 60288 Staff Sergt. R. A. Gregory, Comst. Dept.) officially renamed, very fine
£60-80
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (799 Pte. J. Flynn, 2d Bn. North’d. Fus.) official correction to unit, good very fine
£180-220 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (1591 Pte. W. Mead, 2d Bn. R. Suss. R.) good very fine £140-180
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (11 Drumr. A. Held, 2nd Madras Infy.), traces of minor repair to suspension rivet, otherwise very fine
£160-180
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95 (3), 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (3156 Sepoy Lainah Singh, 15th Bl. Infy.); another, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (1268 Pte. G. Hall, 1st Batt. Royal Welsh Fus.) officially renamed; another, without clasp (17922 Gunr. G. Mathews, No. 7 By. 1st Bde. N. Dn. R.A.) ‘7’ re-engraved, contact marks, fine and better (3)
£200-250 90 91 92 93
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93 (1124 Pte. Rasul Khan, 31st Burma Lt. Infy.) good very fine £200-250
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (3401 Sepoy Nepal Singh, 19th Bl. Infy.) about very fine £90-120
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 2 clasps, Looshai, Jowaki 1877-8 (Sepoy Juggut Sing 27th Regt. N.I.) suspension claw crudely soldered, polished, fine
£120-140
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (1747 Pte. G. Harrison 2d Bn. S. Wales Bord.) scratching over surname, otherwise very fine
£180-220
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