CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
Their stay in the UK was again brief; a short period in Canterbury, where one hopes Frederick was able to see his Mother, then to Fort George in Scotland and then in 1855 to Portsmouth. However the 80th were soon called upon to go overseas for another impending war. This time it was to South Africa in preparation for the Kaffir War. On 10 July 1856 they sailed to Cape Colony in South Africa, and were based at Fort Beaufort. But it was to be a short stay; in India the Mutiny had broken out and in November 1857 the Regiment was despatched to Calcutta.
Throughout the suppression of the Mutiny, the 80th were in constant action against bands of rebel soldiers. At the battle of Fort Simree they again advanced with the bayonet and, in the General Officers Report it is stated, “The advance of the 80th under Captain Young excited my warmest approbation”. They fought bitter actions at Dhana and the Campaign in the Oude and finally finished at the scene of the notorious massacre at Cawnpore. The 80th Regiment gained the Battle Honour ‘Central India’ and Frederick Parrott gained the Medal without clasp.
He remained in India with his Regiment stationed at Saugor in the Central Province in 1860 and then in Jhansi in 1861. On 30 November 1861 he was recommended for the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and this was approved by the Commander in Chief, India on 19 October 1862, granting him an annuity of five pounds. Frederick now sailed back to England and on 4 August 1863 after twenty years and three hundred and forty eight days abroad, he was finally discharged from the Depot in Maidstone. He had been in the Army for twenty-one years thirty seven days but, as he had joined “Under Age” his pension was only for fifteen years and one hundred and twenty five years days.
839
Three: Boatswain C. Band, Royal Navy
BALTIC 1854-55, unnamed as issued; CRIMEA 1854-561 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; INDIANMUTINY 1857-59, no clasp (Boatswain Chas. Band, Pearl) good very fine (3)
£900-1000
Charles Band was born in Chatham, Kent on 8 December 1822. He entered the Royal Navy in 1839. He served on Meander, June 1852-May 1854; Algiers, May 1854-February 1856, and Pearl, February 1856-June 1859. He served in the Pearl Naval Brigade during the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. Composed of 250 officers and men, it took part in ten battles during its 15 month existence. With copied service papers.
840
Three: Sailmaker S. E. Gibbs, Royal Navy
BALTIC 1854-55, unnamed as issued; CHINA 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued; CANADA GENERAL SERVICE 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Sailmkr’s. Mate, H.M.S. Aurora) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (3)
£900-1000
Silvanus Ezekiel Gibbs was born in Stoke Deverel, Devonshire on 16 October 1839. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. St. George on 10 February 1854. He then served on Royal William, February-May 1854 and Calcutta, May 1854-May 1856 - seeing service in the operations in the Baltic. Then on Sans Pareil firstly as a Boy 1st Class, then as an Ordinary Seaman, May 1856-February 1859, when he served in the operations in China. Gibbs served as a Sailmaker’s Mate on H.M.S. Aurora, March 1863- August 1866, seeing service in Canada. He was advanced to Sailmaker when on Boscawen in January 1870. Sailmaker Gibbs was pensioned ashore at Greenock on 12 November 1877. With copied service papers.
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