Single Campaign Medals x480
Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009. India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (2622 Pte. G. Vowles 1st. Bn. D.C.L. Infy.) nearly extremely
fine x481 x482 x483 £160-£200 India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (368 Driver Ditta No. 9 Mn. By. R.A.) toned, good very fine £100-£120
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (646 Pte. J. R. B. Hopwood 2d Bn. Manch. R.) official correction to last three letters of surname, very fine
£160-£200
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (2), (Wm. Furn, 17th Lancers; James Hall, 53rd Regt.) the first with brooch marks to reverse and engraved correction to second letter of surname, both with crudely re-affixed suspension claws (2)
£160-£200 William ‘Fern’ on medal roll, formerly 11th Hussars, No. 1691, also shown as ‘Furn’ on Musters.
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Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (John Tetlow, 80th Regt.) nearly very fine £100-£140
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Pte. R.M: Lt. Inft. N, T. Lee, H.M.S. Aurora) officially impressed naming, one very minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine and scarce
£500-£600
Only 3 officers and 21 men belonging to the R.M.L.I. and R.M.A. received the Canada General Service medal, approximately half of this number serving aboard Aurora.
Northcott Tom Lee was born at Chard, Somerset, in 1843 and enlisted for the Royal Marines at Taunton on 4 December 1861, aged 18 years, for an engagement of 12 years. He had previously enrolled in the First Somerset Militia in August 1860 from which he was discharged on enlisting in the Royal Marines. He was in Royal Adelaide (for service in Prince Consort) from 2 October to 10 November 1863, but joined Aurora on 21 November 1863, remaining in her until 20 December 1867, apart from 21 days in prison in Quebec in February/March 1867, and also 5 days in cells. He left the service on 6 October 1868, being medically unfit due to ‘neuralgia of head after sun stroke’ contracted three years earlier. Sold with copied discharge papers.
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Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Pte. C. Latour, 21st Bn.) impressed naming, edge bruise and some dents to Queen’s face, nearly very fine
£240-£280
Abyssinia 1867 (Lieut F. J. Mortimer Rl. Horse Arty.) suspension rather crudely re-fixed with solder, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce to unit
£400-£500
Francis James Mortimer was born on 9 December 1840. He was nominated as a Cadet for the Bombay Artillery and attended Addiscombe 1857-58. He was examined and passed on 21 July 1858, becoming Lieutenant in the Bombay Artillery; 2nd Captain, 29 July 1870; Captain, 5 July 1872; Major, 31 December 1878; Lieutenant-Colonel, 4 November 1884; Colonel, 4 November 1888. Served throughout the campaign in Abyssinia 1867-68, attached to the Transport Train; having proceeded to Zoulla with the Reconnoitring Party, was present at the action of Arogee and capture of Magdala, and was mentioned in despatches for ‘ability, energy, and zeal’: ‘As the only supply of water between the Bashilo and Magdala was under the evening’s fire, all the water-carriers of the force were organised under command of Captain Bainbridge, Transport Corps, with two subalterns, Lieutenant Mortimer, Transport Corps, and Lieutenant Ramsbottom, Transport Corps, for the purpose of carrying forward regular supplies of water from the Bashilo’ (London Gazettes 16 and 30 June, and 10 July, 1868 refer).
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