Single Campaign Medals
Daily Southern Cross, 9 December: ‘The mortal remains of this distinguished officer were interred yesterday in the Auckland Cemetery, besides those of his gallant companions-in-arms and misfortune. A row of graves, too recently filled in to be distinguished by monumental art, now marks the spot where the heroes of Rangiriri lie. Watkin, Murphy, Phelps, Mercer, and Austen are names which will not soon be forgotten; and we doubt not but that years hence, when the student of New Zealand history comes upon that page of it which records the terrible conflict in which these gallant men lost their lives, he will pause, with mingled feelings of admiration and sympathy for them. About 4 o'clock yesterday the funeral procession left the Albert Barracks in the following order:- Firing party, under command of Major Turner, 50th Regiment, and Lieutenant Harrington 2nd Bat. 14th Regiment. Band of the 14th Regiment…The Body, Drawn on a gun carriage, the pall, a Union Jack.... The charger of the deceased, covered with a black pall, boots and spurs reversed, led by two servants of deceased, the Sergeants of all corps, Officers of Militia and Volunteers. Officers of the line, juniors first. Officers of the Commissariat and Engineers. Officers of the Colonial Government. Members of the Ministry. His Excellency the Governor. &c, &c…’
The British suffered 130 casualties at Rangiriri. Of these, six officers and 41 men were killed in action or died later from their wounds. The officers, who included Captain Henry Mercer of the Royal Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Austen, Lieutenant William Murphy and Captain John Phelps of the 14th Regiment; and Ensign A. Ducrow of the 40th Regiment, were buried in Auckland’s Grafton Cemetery.
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Roll states: ‘Ex 16th Foot, No. 3502. Discharged 7 July 1859.’ Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Pte. Samuel Carter, 95 Ft.) later impressed naming and with riveted
suspension claw, nearly extremely fine 341 £140-£180 Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Ensign T. W. Gilchrist, 50th Madras N.I.) nearly extremely fine £400-£500
Thomas Wright Gilchrist was born at Mysore on 29 December 1839, son of Surgeon William Gilchrist, M.D. He was appointed Ensign in the 50th Madras Native Infantry on 13 June 1857, and promoted to Lieutenant on 1 May 1860. He served with the Kurnool Moveable Column and Saugor Field Division, and was present at the storm of the Fort of Putra, 13 November 1858.
He was appointed Quartermaster 40th Madras N.I., 23 February 1863; Quartermaster 24th Madras N.I., 19 December 1864; Adjutant 5th Madras N.I., 24 November 1865. Granted furlogh on medical leave, 18 January 1868, he died on board the Walmer Castle on 20 June 1868, aged 28.
342 Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Asst. Surgn. J Adamson, Med. Dept.) nearly extremely fine £400-£500
James Adamson was born at Dunfermline on 29 April 1830. He was nominated as an Assistant Surgeon with the H.E.I.C. Army by Charles Mills and recommended by Lord West. He was appointed to the 3rd Madras European Regiment at Bellery, 4 July 1854, and to the 1st Madras Native Infantry, 29 April 1856. He was appointed Civil Surgeon in charge at Bandah, 1 July 1858, and served during the Mutiny in Bundelkund and at the action at Bandah. He was afterwards Assistant Surgeon to the 24th Madras Native Infantry, 17 September 1859, and removed to the department of Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Presidency Division, 9 January 1861. He was court martialled and dismissed the service on 21 February 1861, as announced in the following General Order:
‘At an European General Court Martial held at Rangoon on Thursday the 27th day of December 1860, James Adamson, Assistant Surgeon of the 23rd Regiment Light Infantry, was arraigned on the following charge:
For conduct highly unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman and to the prejudice of good order and Military discipline in having at Rangoon on the 22nd October 1860, at an entertainment given on the occasion of the Dusserah festival in the lines of the 23rd Light Infantry by the Hindoos of the Regiment been in a disgraceful state of intoxication and thereby necessitated his being carried to his house by certain Officers of his Regiment.’
An appeal was made on his behalf to Sir Patrick Grant, the Commander-in-Chief, who refused to accede ‘on the ground that this was not the first occasion on which he had been guilty of the same offence, and serious results are very liable to arise from intemperance in a medical officer.’
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Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Delhi, Lucknow (Gunr Wm. Failes, 1st Bde. Bengl. H. Art.) minor edge bruising, therefore very fine
£460-500
Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001. William Failes served with 2nd Troop, 1st Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery, until his death in hospital at Lucknow, 9 May 1958.
This troop of the Bengal Horse Artillery is remembered in the Army today as 143 Battery (Tombs Troop) R.A., after Henry Tombs, one of the great outstanding officers of the Bengal Horse Artillery, whose Victoria Cross group of medals was sold in these rooms in December 2017.
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Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Gunner John Cameron, 1st Compy. 5th Bn. Bl. Art.) nearly extremely fine
£500-£600
John Cameron was born in Belfast, and attested for the East India Company at Southampton, in February 1853. He was assigned to the Bengal Artillery, and arrived in India in September 1853. Cameron served with the 1st Company, 5th Battalion, Bengal Artillery during the Indian Mutiny. Commanded by Captain V. Eyre, it was one of three batteries employed under Havelock to relieve the Residency.
Cameron was wounded in action at the Alum Bagh, 25 September 1875. In this action the Artillery led the way between the Alum Bagh and the Canal Bridge losing one third of number killed or wounded in half an hour. Captain F. C. Maude, who commanded one of the other batteries, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry at the Alum Bagh.
The 1st Company, 5th Battalion subsequently received the Honour Title “Eyre’s Battery”
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