SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 223
ARMY OF INDIA 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Maheidpoor (A. Simpson, 22nd Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine
£1800-2200
Provenance: Gray Collection 1920; Loxley Collection 1949; Elson Collection 1963; Alan Wolfe Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005.
Approximately 75 clasps for Maheidpore were issued to European recipients. The only British troops engaged were the 22nd Light Dragoons and the 1st Foot who received 30 and 37 clasps respectively.
Alexander Simpson was born in 1781 in the Parish of Dyke, near the town of Murray, Scotland, and was originally enlisted into the 73rd Foot on 11 April 1801, at the age of twenty. He served in the East Indies from 17 June 1802, and for the remainder of his military career. On 24 December 1805 he transferred into the 94th Foot, and on 25 September 1807, he was enlisted into the 22nd Light Dragoons at Madras. He was discharged in India in July 1820, on disbandment of the regiment and returned to England where he received his final discharge on 12 September 1820.
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ARMY OF INDIA 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Lieut. Chas. Bradford, 28th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine
£1000-1200
Charles Bradford was born on 31 May 1803, in the Parish of Abbot’s Langley, Hertfordshire. He was recommended for a cadetship in the Madras Infantry and appointed to the 14th (subsequently renumbered 28th) Madras Native Infantry on 13 February 1821 as an Ensign, and arrived in India on 14 June 1821. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 23 July 1823, and took part in the war in Burma between April 1824 and February 1826. He was appointed Adjutant to his regiment in September 1826, was granted furlough in January 1829 and did not return to to duty with his regiment until September 1832. Between April and November 1833, he was in Hyderabad, and whilst there he was a member of a court martial at Secunderabad. Thereafter he was granted sick leave, residing at the Cape before returning to England in May 1835, having been promoted to Captain on 24 December 1834. Because of his continued ill-health he was permitted to retire from the service on half-pay on 11 January 1836.
Following a period of study at Oxford University, where he matriculated on 10 June 1836, Bradford took up Holy Orders. In 1846 he was appointed Rector of Greatham in Hampshire in succession to his brother-in-law, Thomas Agar Holland. He died at Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, on 26 April 1879, and is buried in St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick-Smallcombe Cemetery in Bath.
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ARMY OF INDIA 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Lieut. Chas. R. Whinfield, Arty. Brig. Maj.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor marks, otherwise extremely fine
£1800-2200
Charles Rabett Whinfield was born on 25 February 1796, at Harwich, Essex, son of Rev. William Whinfield, later (1810-14) chaplain of the East India Company’s trading post and garrison at Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, on the west coast of Sumatra. In 1811 Whinfield was accepted into the Company’s Military Seminary at Addiscombe, and, following graduation was admitted to the Bengal Horse Artillery on 5 August 1814. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant Fireworker on 8 June 1816, promoted to Lieutenant on 1 September 1818, and to Captain by brevet on 8 June 1831. This latter promotion, however, was cancelled when his resignation from the service was accepted with effect from 13 September 1829.
During his time in India, Whinfield participated in the siege and capture of Hathras in 1817; the Pindari and Third Mahratta War 1817-19 (probably at the siege of Taragarh but definitely at the siege of Madhurajpura where he was mentioned in the report of the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Thompson, for the effectiveness of the fire from the battery under his command which contributed to ‘the surrender of the fort with so small loss on our side.’); and in the second siege and capture of Bhurtpoor between 10 December 1825 and 18 January 1826. In advance of the Bhurtpoor campaign, Whinfield was appointed, 6 December 1825, Brigade Major of the Bengal Division of Horse and Light Field Artillery.
He was granted furlough in January 1827 and sometime thereafter returned to England, where he was employed as Orderly Officer at Addiscombe from July 1828 to June 1831. His resignation from the service was accepted on 2 November 1831, with effect from 13 September 1829, and there is no record of him receiving a pension.
Between 1836 and 1853 he is listed in the Imperial Calendars as the Sheriff of Berbice, British Guiana. This was a time when the abolition of slavery in British Guiana in 1834 had created a shortage of labour, and sugar planters put pressure on the British Government to allow indentured labourers from abroad, especially India, to emigrate to sugar producing colonies. However, due to abuses of the system by some plantation owners, a Commission of Inquiry was established in 1839 to look into ‘the state, condition and general treatment’ of emigrants to British Guiana. Whinfield was appointed as one of the Commissioners. During his tenure as Sheriff in British Guiana, Whinfield compiled ‘A Manual for Justices of the Peace of British Guiana’, which was published in 1845. Ill-health caused Whinfield to return to England, departing British Guiana on the ship Parker in May 1850. Prior to his departure he was presented with a ‘complimentary address’ from the magistrates of Berbice, and the local inhabitants subscribed to the purchase of a piece of plate as a token of the esteem in which he was held. He died on 1 January 1852 at Ipswich and is buried at All Saints’ Church, Dovercourt, Essex.
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