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Military General Service , single clasp, Sahagun & Benevente, 7th Light Dragoons
Crimea , Heavy Brigade, 3 clasps, with Balaklava, officially impressed , 5th Dragoon Guards, died at Scutari 1855
A fine Military Cross, Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914 group to 2/ Bedfords & Yorkshire Regiment . A good DCM for bringing in his wounded C.O. and assuming command of the company in the absence of all officers and his M.C. for taking a post under heavy fire at Ypres , 1917
Military General Service, 11 clasps, 43rd Foot, Wounded at Vimiera, present at the sanguinary regimental actions at Badajoz where they lost over 300 officers and men storming the breach including their Colonel killed at he head of the regiment, at New Orleans where over. 200 were casualties. Also present at the Bridge of Coa, Lord Wellington wrote of this action near Almeida that it was one of the most brilliant of the exploits of the Light Division during the war and where again their Colonel was killed at the head of the regiment
A good Second World War ‘1944’ D.F.C., ‘1943’ D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Halifax pilot Flight Lieutenant. His DFM awarded in main for when aircraft was shot down into the sea in the vicinity of the Dutch coast and he and his crew were rescued 3 days later by an Air Sea Rescue Launch after undergoing extreme hardships. The rescue was completed under fire from 3 enemy ‘E’ boats.. His DFC in part for pressing home on attack on Dusseldorf whilst coned by searchlights and partly for a attack on Karlsruhe when pressing home his attack despite losing height doe to severe icing.
Crimea, 3 clasps, A good ‘Chargers’ officially impressed killed in action to the 8th Hussars (Royal Irish)
South Africa clasp 1879, 94th Foot. Killed in action at Bronkhorstspruit, 20/12/1880
Small Army Gold Medal for Corunna, With gold ribbon buckle and original case of issue and original ribbon. Lieut. Col. Edwd. Hull, 2nd Bn. 43d Ft.), later killed in action at the head of his regiment at the Bridge of Coa 24 July. 1810. A brilliant rearguard action allowing Crauford to withdraw his Division from it’s ill chosen position and annihilation. Lord Wellington wrote of this action near Almeida that it was one of the most brilliant of the exploits of the Light Division during the war and commended Hull. Colonel Hull had previously been taken prisoner of war at the fall of Guadaloupe and with a few other officers of the regiment had later escaped and seizing a small boat successfully effected this escape.
China 1842 (Volunteer 1st Cl.) later Admiral, China campaign of 1842 and with the Naval Brigade ashore, including the actions of Tsekee on 14th March, at Chapoo on 17 May, and the storming and capture of Nanking on 16 June (Medal); in the Baltic campaign of 1854, as Lieutenant of H.M.S. Desperate; in the Baltic campaign of 1855, as Lieutenant of H.M.S. Pylades, including, on 15 August, the capture of four craft under fire from Russian troops in the Bight of Kossoria (Medal); also the campaign against the Sooso tribe on the Scarcies River, 30 miles north of Sierra Leone, December 1857 to 1 February 1858, as Lieutenant commanding H.M.S. Teazer, including the bombardment of Kambia on 1 February 1858, and with the Naval Brigade in destroying hostile villages further up river. He was specially promoted to Commander for these services, 1 April 1858;
The most remarkable combination of 8 campaign medals to Surgeon General Sir Edmon Townsend, KCB, CMG from Abyssinia to the Boer War. A surgeon at the ‘sharp end’ was severely wounded in Perak , engaged with three Malays, he shot one at point blank but felled by the others being saved by two Bluejackets, both awarded the CGM. In the Boer War despite of advancing age and the most senior rank of Surgeon General was in the firing line at Tweefontein tending the wounded until three times dangerously wounded. His service spanning Abyssinia , battle of Arogee, the Zulu War, Ulundi, Egypt, Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir, Burma 1885, Ashanti 1896, India , Arhanga Pass, and Bazar Valley actions and Boer War
The Army of India Medal Bhurtpoor to Lieutenant-Colonel R. ‘Tosh’ Daly, 14th Foot, who was most severely wounded, his left leg being amputated where he fell- leading the Light Company at the head of storming of Bhurtpoor in January 1826. he remained in the Army and went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, (House Captain later Major of Companies)where the sound of his wooden leg would warn Cadets of his presence
One of the great exponents of the two-seater Bristol Fighter. Pilot ‘s 26 Victory Ace’s Distinguished Flying Cross and Second Award Bar to Major W.F.J. “Jim” Harvey, M.B.E., D.F.C., T.D., Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, accredited with 26 victories, of which 18 were with his front gun, whilst flying with No.22 Squadron, all Victories occurring between March and August 1918,
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