Single Campaign Medals 449
Defence of Jellalabad 1842, Flying Victory (Colr. Serjt. Fs. McCartney 13th Regt.) officially impressed naming, fitted with German silver straight bar suspension, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare
£1,400-£1,800 Provenance: D. C. L. Gosling Collection, Nimrod Dix & Co., November 1985.
Francis McCartney was born in the Parish of Rainagh, near Banagher, King’s County, and attested for the 9th Foot at Dublin on 10 January 1831, aged 17 years 6 months. He transferred to the 13th Light Infantry on 1 November 1836, to enable him to serve with an elder brother [his elder brother was Colour-Sergeant James McCartney who died at Karnal on 5 December 1838]. Promoted to Corporal in August 1838, to Sergeant in July 1840, and to Colour-Sergeant in February 1844, he was remanded to Sergeant again on 12 July 1849, and discharged on 25 January 1853, ‘being appointed to serve on the Militia Staff.’ His discharge papers note, ‘Distinguished himself - Is in possession of three medals, viz: For the storming of Ghuznee, General action at Jellalabad, and recapture of Cabool. Is also in pofsefsion of a Medal “For Long Service & Good Conduct”’
Sold with copied discharge papers. 450
Defence of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 1842, unnamed, fitted with silver clip and straight bar suspension, good very fine
£600-£800
451
China 1842 (Thomas Nicholls, H.M.S. Wellesley.) with original straight bar suspension, edge bruise and light contact marks, nearly very fine
£400-£500
Thomas Nicholls was born in the Cawsand, Cornwall, in 1813. He served aboard H.M.S. Caledonia from 18 October 1836 to 15 September 1837, and joined H.M.S. Wellesley on 1 October 1837. Wellesley took part in the quelling of an insurrection on the coast of Malabar during 1838, and at the capture of Kurrachee in February 1839. In the following month she was present at the evacuation of the British Residency at Bushire in the Persian Gulf, occasioned by the critical state of relations then existing between Britain and Persia.
H.M.S. Wellesley fired the first shot of the China War at the capture of Chusan Island on 6 July 1840. She subsequently took part in the operations in the Bocca Tigris leading to the capture of the Bogue Forts guarding the entrance to Canton, January to March 1841, the siege of Canton in May 1841, the capture of Amoy in August 1841, and the re-capture of Chusan Island and the capture of Chinghae in October 1841. Advanced Able Seaman, Nicholls was paid off at Plymouth on 4 August 1842.
Sold with copied muster list and medal roll extract.
452
China 1842 (William
...in H.M.S. Wellesley.) with heavy edge bruising and contact marks, replacement suspension, fair £200-£240
453 China 1842 (T. Sweeny, Drummer, 98th Regiment Foot.) original suspension, nearly very fine
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