Single Campaign Medals 489
China 1857-60, 2 clasps, China 1842, Fatshan 1857, unnamed as issued, good very fine
£300-£400
490
China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Sapper Thos. Armstrong, 23rd. Co. Royal Engrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, edge bruising, nearly very fine
£200-£240
Thomas Armstrong was born in Ovingham, Northumberland, in 1833 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 30 December 1857. He served with 23rd Company, Royal Engineers in India and China from May 1859 to February 1862, and was discharged medically unfit on 15 July 1872, after 14 years and 198 days’ service, which had, however, regularly been interrupted by periods of desertion and absence without leave.
Sold with copied research. 491
China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Lieut. W. G. Chalmers. 23rd Regt. Punjab Pioneers) officially impressed naming, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, good very fine
£600-£800
William Gordon Chalmers was born on 30 April 1835, third son of Charles Chalmers, Esq., of Monkshill, county Aberdeen. appointed Ensign on 5 April 1854, and promoted to Lieutenant on 27 January 1857. He served under General Chamberlain in the expedition to Upper Meeranzaie and Koorum, against the Hill Tribes, Zymosht, Wuzeerees, and Torees, in 1856. Present at Rawal Pindee in July 1857, when the 58th Native Infantry and 2 Companies 14th Native Infantry were disarmed, part of which mutinied. Served with Colonel Davidson’s Column in pursuit of the 62nd and 69th Regiments in the Googaira District, September 1858. Served in the China Campaign in 1860. Present at the landing, 1st August, and occupation of Pehtang, 2nd August; at the affair, 3rd August; battle of Sinho, 12th August; capture of Tonghu, 14th August; Taku Forts, 21st August; action of Chauk Kiawung, 18th September; action of Tungchow, 21st September; advance on Pekin, 6th October; and final surrender of that city (Medal and 2 Clasps).
Chalmers was appointed Adjutant of the 23rd Punjab Pioneers from 30 January 1862. In November 1863, as Officiating Second-in-Command, he accompanied the regiment to Yusafzai on service, and he was present with it throughout the closing stages of the Umbeyla Campaign, including the capture of Lalu, the expulsion of the enemy from the Conical Hill, and the severe action at the mouth of the Buner Pass, in which last he succeeded to the command of the regiment on Colonel Chamberlain falling severely wounded. On the conclusion of the campaign he accompanied the regiment to Peshawar, arriving there early in January 1864. He was appointed Officiating Second-in-Command of the 29th Punjab Infantry in November 1864, which regiment he joined at Hamirpur, and in December accompanied it to Barrackpore, but in March 1865 ill-health compelled him to go home on furlough on medical certificate. He returned to India in March 1868, and in June was appointed Officiating Wing Officer in the 41st Native Infantry, stationed at Agra, but two months later he was compelled by ill-health to proceed to the hills, and then the end came. He died at Kasauli, while on the way to Simla, on 21 August 1868.
Sold with lengthy biography copied from Soldiers of the Raj. 492
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (66. Pte. H. Carter 1/25th. Rgt.) impressed naming, minor edge nicks, good very fine
£240-£280 493
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Capt. F. G. Berkeley 47th. Regt.) engraved naming, extremely fine
£400-£500
Frederick George Berkeley was born in April 1841 and was commissioned Ensign in the 47th Regiment of Foot in July 1858. Promoted Lieutenant in February 1860, he proceeded to Canada the following year, and was promoted Captain in June 1864. He served during the Fenian uprising of 1866, before being posted to Barbados in 1868 and Ireland in 1870. Appointed Major-General of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in August 1897, he retired to Chertsey in 1901, as Commanding Officer of the 47th District, and died on 6 December 1906.
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