SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 255
HYDERABAD 1843 (Serjt. G. Massey 1st T. H.A.) naming correctly impressed in serif capitals, fitted with original silver clip and bar suspension, nearly extremely fine and scarce
£600-800
The medal for Hyderabad was awarded to 101 members of the 1st Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery.
Godfrey Massey was born at Kiteely, in east County Limerick, in about 1808. He was recruited into the H.E.I.C. forces at Rathkeale and attested for unlimited service in the Bombay Artillery on 15 November 1826, aged 19 and a clerk by trade. He was embarked for India in January 1827 and arrived at Bombay on 12 May 1827. In May 1834 he was transferred to the 1st Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery, and by the time of the Scinde campaign in 1843 had risen to the rank of Sergeant. This Troop was then commanded by Brevet Major John Thomas Leslie and played an important part in the battle of Hyderabad. The battle began with the 1st Troop moving diagonally across the battlefield in front of the infantry, halting, firing and re-mounting until they reached a position where they could engage the entire left flank of the enemy. It was during this stage of fire and movement that Lieutenant Smith was killed as he went forward to recce a gun position close to the enemy. He was the Troop’s only fatality of the battle. The sustained fire from the artillery weakened the enemy and allowed the cavalry on the right flank to charge; simultaneously the infantry, led by
H.Ms. 22nd Regiment made a frontal attack on the enemy’s position. Leslie’s Troop, their artillery duties done, crossed the river under heavy fire and charged with the cavalry.
Amir Shere Mohamed was heavily defeated, suffering over 4,000 casualties, whilst Napier’s losses numbered 39 killed and 231 wounded.
After the battle Leslie noted that ‘we descended down a steep bank and one of my trumpeters had gone ahead up the far bank and seized a banner amidst a hail of bullets. Waving the banner he shouted “this way” and led the Troop in support of the infantry.’
General Napier later wrote that the battle was decided by the Troop of Horse Artillery and Her Majesty’s 22nd Regiment. On 11 April 1843, the Governor General in India directed that ‘after the merits of the Troop during its service in Afghanistan and India, for the many long marches that it had completed, especially the one to join Napier’s forces at Hyderabad, it should hereafter be denominated the 1st or Leslie’s Troop of Horse Artillery and shall in addition to the appointments of Hyderabad and Afghanistan bear the Eagle.’
Sergeant Godfrey Massey died of unknown causes at Poona on 24 March 1845. Sold with various copied muster and description lists, and medal roll entry.
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HYDERABAD 1843 (Ram Sing 3rd Lt Cavy) impressed naming, fitted with steel clip and bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine
£400-460
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MAHARAJPOOR STAR 1843 (Sergt. Wm. Jordan H.M. 40th Regt.) naming engraved on the vertical, fitted with replacement German-silver bar suspension, bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine
£300-360
258
MAHARAJPOOR STAR 1843 (Private William Halls H.M. 40th Regt.) with original brass hook and later ring suspension, nearly extremely fine
£500-600
William Halls enlisted into the 40th Foot at Chelmsford on 31 March 1840. He embarked for India on 16 May and joined his regiment at Karachi on 4 September 1840. From the musters it is evident that Halls participated in the campaign in Afghanistan in 1842 and is probably also entitled to the medal for ‘Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul’.
Halls stayed in India with the regiment until 1 November 1844, when he volunteered to the 60th Foot. He was one of 331 soldiers shown as discontinued/reduced in the regimental muster rolls at this time, nearly all of them having volunteered to other regiments. However, no further record can be found of William Halls in the muster rolls of the 60th, the likelihood being that he had either died or deserted on his way to join his new regiment, or that he was directed to a different regiment altogether.
Sold with full muster details and copied muster rolls.
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PUNNIAR STAR 1843 (Private James Garvie H.M. 3rd Regt.) fitted with replacement brass bar suspension, two light solder deposits on reverse, otherwise very fine
£300-360
260
PUNNIAR STAR 1843 (Private Edward Warne H.M. 3rd Regt.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver bar suspension, nearly very fine
£360-400
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