MISCELLANEOUS 1114
71ST FOOTMEDAL 1816, an engraved silver medal, 38mm. in diameter, Obv. a crown surmounting ‘71’ from which rays emanate, on a scroll above, ‘For Courage Loyalty & Faithful Service’, below, ‘10 Years Service Voted 24th May 1816’; Rev. entwined rose, thistle and shamrock, on a scroll above, ‘Tria Juncta in Uno’, with additional silver rim inscribed ‘Colour Serjt. Geoe. Leslie, 71st Lt. Infantry’ fitted with silver clip and straight bar suspension and worn from an old tartan ribbon, very fine and scarce
£600-800 Balmer R450.
George Leslie was born in Edinburgh and was a painter by trade. He attested for the 71st Light Infantry at Glasgow on 19 August 1808, aged 14 years. He served ‘Ten months in the Peninsula, Three years and six months in France, Seven years and four months in North America and six months in the Bermudas. Was present at the Battles of the Pyrenees, Campo, Nive, Bayonne, St Palais, Orthes, Aire, Tarbes, Toulouse & Waterloo.’ He became a Corporal on 19 August 1812 and was promoted to Sergeant on 25 June 1814, and is listed as having served in Captain A. J. McIntyre’s Company in the Waterloo Campaign, receiving two years additional service. He was finally discharged in North America on 11 July 1832, his conduct being described as that of a ‘good, sober, brave soldier & in the highest degree trustworthy.’ He settled in Canada and claimed his M.G.S. medal from Amherstberg, Canada West, with clasps for Nivelle Orthes and Toulouse. He died at Amherstburg on 14 April 1852, and is buried there with his wife, Ann P., who died on 23 January 1833.
Sold with a DVD containing full research including copied discharge papers, medal claim entry, and photograph of his headstone. 1115
The MacGregor Memorial Medal for 1913 awarded to Captain B. N. Abbay, 27th Light Cavalry
MACGREGORMEMORIALMEDAL, silver, large type, 70mm (Awarded to Captain B. N. Abbay 27th Light Cavalry, for Valuable Reconnaissance Work, 1913) good very fine and scarce
£1800-2200
The MacGregor Memorial Medal was founded in 1888 as a Memorial to the late Major-General Sir Charles MacGregor, as an award for outstanding military reconnaissance of exploration, in the remote areas of India or on its frontiers, which produced new information of value to the defence of India. Most journeys involved considerable risk. Hazards could include hostile tribes, armed brigands, extremes of climate, harsh terrain, or dangerous animals. It was envisaged that two awards would be made annually; a large silver medal to officers, and a small silver medal to other ranks. If there were no deserving cases in a particular year, no award would be made, and in a few years an additional award was ‘specially awarded’, as in the case of this recipient. For specially valuable work a gold medal of the smaller size could be awarded whenever the Council deemed it desirable.
The MacGregor Memorial Medal is the only exclusively military award, instituted during British rule, which continues to be granted to the Republic of India’s armed forces. The criteria of endeavour for both officers and other ranks to become eligible for the award have been rigorously upheld. In the one hundred years from its founding until 1987, only 114 awards have been made: 7 in gold, 59 large silver medals to officers, and 48 small silver medals to non-commissioned officers and other ranks.
Bryan Norman Abbay was born on 6 June 1881, at Earl Soham, Suffolk. He joined the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment in February 1900, obtaining promotion at the following October. The Battalion was in Burma, but went to India in 1901, and near the end of the year proceeded to South Africa, where he saw a good deal of service on the Blockhouse Line (Queen’s Medal, 4 clasps). He then transferred to the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment and returned to India, where he was transferred in 1904 to the 27th Light Cavalry, Indian Army, in which he became a Captain in 1909. For five years he served on the Northern Frontier of Burma and was awarded the MacGregor Memorial Medal for reconnaissance work in the unexplored country to the north of Burma. He married in October 1913, Henrietta Maud Julius, youngest daughter of Villers Alexander Julius, of Colombo, Ceylon. His best man was Mr F. V. Clerke, Political Officer of the Northern Frontier, Burma, who was associated with Captain Abbay in the settling of the Tawlong feud of 17 years standing in Upper Burma. Having served with both the 27th Light Cavalry and the Royal Fusiliers, he ended the First World War as acting Lieutenant-Colonel in command of his own regiment, the 27th Light Cavalry. Post war service saw him commended for service in the Afghan War of 1919 (despatches London Gazette 3 August 1920) and in Waziristan in 1919-20 (despatches London Gazette 10 June 1921). In 1926 he was appointed Colonel of the 18th King Edward’s Own Cavalry, and in the New Year’s Honours List of 1931 he was appointed to the Order of the Bath (C.B.). Colonel Abbay retired to Kenya before the outbreak of war in 1939 and died on 19 January 1947, on a fishing expedition at Lamu, Kenya.
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INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE PRIZE FOR PATHOLOGY MEDAL, 45mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the bust of Surgeon General Sir Joseph Fayrer Bart, K.C.S.I., F.R.S. (Lieutenant B. F. Beatson, I.M.S. April 1914) in Spink, London fitted case of issue, edge bruise, nearly extremely fine
£30-40 Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013.
Basil Fraser Beatson was born in Paddington on 7 April 1890. He qualified in medicine as M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1912 and, joining the Indian Medical Service in 1914, was awarded the Fayrer Prize in Pathology that year. Attaining the rank of Captain in March 1915, he served in the Great War and in Persia, 1918-19. In October 1922 he transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Temporary Lieutenant, and was advanced to Squadron Leader in January 1924. He retired from the Royal Air Force in October 1946 and died on 6 December 1971.
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