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SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 165 166 167


With copied roll extract. INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897 (3626 Pte. M. Hogan, 2nd Bn. Ryl. Ir.


Regt.) toned, good very fine £120-160


INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4433 Pte. H. Marsdin, 1st Bn. Gord. Highrs.) 1st & 2nd clasps connected by wire, edge bruise, very fine


£200-250


The Samana and Tirah campaign medal to Private David Worth, Northamptonshire Regiment, killed in action at Saran Sar in November 1897, when 2nd Lieutenant MacIntire and a dozen Northamptons made a desperate but unsuccessful last stand against overwhelming odds


INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (3841 Pte. D. Worth. 1st Bn. North’n Regt.) some light edge bruising, otherwise extremely fine £2000-2500


Private David Worth was killed in action at Saran Sar on 9 November 1897.


The medal to Drummer Harry Little, killed on the same occasion, was sold in these rooms on 30 March 2011 (£4600).


After participating in the Samana expedition, the Northamptons marched with the 2nd Division of the Tirah Field Force, entering the Afridi Tirah on 31 October 1897. On November 9th, the battalion formed part of a reconnaissance in force to the crest of the Saran Sar, under the command of Brigadier-General Westmacott. In his subsequent despatch, General Sir W. S. A. Lockhart reported:


‘During the advance but few of the enemy showed themselves, but in the retirement, which began at 2 p.m., the Northamptonshire Regiment forming the rear-guard was closely pressed. Its movement from the crest into the valley, which was much delayed by the steepness of the descent and by the number of wounded men who had to be carried by their comrades, was covered by the guns, the flanks being held by the two Sikh regiments [15th & 36th]. Eventually a portion of the Northamptonshire Regiment became entangled in a deep ravine, where they were fired into at close quarters by the tribesmen. The 36th Sikhs were sent back to extricate them, but evening was coming on, and before assistance could be rendered a party consisting of an officer and 12 men was cut off and shot down. Had the battalion kept to the high ground where its flanks were protected by the two Sikh regiments, its loss would probably have been small; but unfortunately a route was chosen which offered every tactical advantage to the enemy, the result being that some of our troops became isolated, and were then attacked in overwhelming numbers.’


Immediately on hearing of the serious nature of the incident, Sir William Lockhart at once ordered a military court of enquiry into what formed one of the saddest incidents in the Tirah Expedition. ‘They sold their lives dearly,’ said one contemporary account, ‘and, surrounded by a pitiless foe, they fought with undaunted courage to the end. When a force went out next morning the bodies of the boy officer and the whole of the party were found together. They bore testimony to the severity of the unequal struggle. Poor MacIntyre had two bullet wounds, one through the head and the other through the arm. Not a man of the little band but had one or more bullet wounds, many having been shot through the head. The bodies had been stripped, and many of them had been hacked about with swords; but feelings of relief possessed all when it was found that there had been no mutilation of the horrible character elsewhere practised by our frontier foe. It was a sad, a heart-rending spectacle.’


168 169 170


171 ASHANTI STAR 1896, unnamed as issued, good very fine QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (649 Pte. J. Burchill, 2/R. Bde.) good very fine


£140-180 £200-240


KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 5 clasps, Sudan 1897, The Atbara, Khartoum, Firket, Sudan 1899, edge impressed with Arabic numerals, clasps attached with unofficial rivets in order listed, minor edge bruising, otherwise about very fine £180-200


EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA 1897-99, 1 clasp, 1898 (1116 Pte. Zahirullah, 27/Bom. Inf.) engraved naming, good very fine


£240-280


172


very fine


Served in the 3rd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (6574 Pte. W. Conduit, Wilts. Regt.) minor edge bruising and contact marks,


£50-70


Just 17 medals to the unit. 173 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. J. Ward, Matatiele N.C.) nearly extremely fine, rare to unit £160-200


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