Single Campaign Medals 436
Ghuznee 1839 (Saml. Kirby 4th Dragns.) naming impressed in reverse field, with original silver straight bar suspension, good very fine
£600-£800
Provenance: Sotheby, March 1980. A similarly named example to ‘Jn. Monks 4th Dragns.’ sold in these rooms on 15 December 2011.
Samuel Kirby was born in the Parish of Romsey, Hampshire, and attested for the 4th Light Dragoons at Salisbury on 30 July 1834, aged 22. He deserted on 2 March 1835, rejoined on 29 May, and was tried and convicted by District Court Martial to Military Confinement and imprisoned from 29 May to 27 June, 1835. He served abroad for 6 years in the ‘East Indies, Scinde and Affghanistan.’ Two squadrons of the regiment joined the army that took part in the 1st Afghan War. They returned after 18 months away and in that time they lost 3 officers and 58 rank and file - all to fever and cholera and none to enemy action. Kirby was discharged at Canterbury Barracks on 10 May 1842, in consequence of disability caused by a severe kick by a horse whilst on duty at Kirkee, Bombay, in 1840. Sold with copied discharge papers and confirmation of Prize Money for the Ghuznee campaign of 1839.
437
Ghuznee 1839 (No. 620 Pte. I. Hemmingway, 16th Lancers) naming engraved on the reverse field, with straight bar suspension, edge bruising, very fine
£400-£500
Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003. Sold with copied muster roll extract.
438
Ghuznee 1839 (Pt John Astier XIII P.A.L.I.) regimentally impressed naming, fitted with a contemporary replacement wide silver bar suspension, contact marks, therefore good fine
£600-700
John Astier was born at Mullingar, County Westmeath, and attested for the 13th Light Infantry at Parsonstown, King’s County, on 1 March 1825, aged 21, a shoe maker by trade. He was discharged in the rank of Sergeant at Chatham on 14 August 1846, being unfit for further service and ‘in possession of three medals viz: For the storming of Ghuznee, General action at Jellalabad and the Capture of Cabool.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.
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Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, original suspension, this with old repair, contact marks, nearly very fine £200-£260 St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, fitted with later rings for suspension, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £100-£140 St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed as issued, pierced with ring suspension, good very fine £100-£140
Also entitled to Sutlej for Moodkee with clasps for Ferozeshuhur and Sobraon. Cabul 1842 (*No. 1412 Pt. William Baker,
H.Ms. 9th Regt.*) regimentally engraved naming, fitted with original steel
clip and straight bar suspension, very fine £300-£360 443
Cabul 1842 (Pt. Edwd. De Lahunt XIII P.A.L.I.) Regimentally impressed naming, fitted with replacement clip and bar suspension, contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine
£360-£440
Edward Delahunt attested for the 13th Light Infantry at Leeds on 18 September 1839, and embarked for India in October of that year. He served with the Regiment in the First Afghan War, before returning to the U.K. in August 1845. His subsequent career with the Regiment was chequered at best: sentenced to 50 lashes and 168 days in prison for insulting behaviour in April 1849, he had only just been released when he was sentenced to a further 84 days in prison in October of that year for refusing to have his hair cut’! The following September he was sentenced to 50 lashes and a further 365 days in prison, before being released and discharged on 11 April 1851, his conduct officially recorded as ‘Bad’.
Sold with copied research, including full muster details.
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