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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 338

Photographic Society Medals Bestowed Upon Lieutenant-General Sir C.P. Keyes, K.C.B., One of the Early Pioneers of Photography in India - Bengal Photographic Society Prize Medal, by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, silver, the obverse featuring a reclining female, the reverse engraved ´To Lieut. Col. C.P. Keyes. C.B. for the Second Best Series of Landscapes, Decr. 1864´ - Simla Fine Art Exhibition Society´s Medal for Photographers 1869, silver, the obverse featuring an artist´s brushes and pallet, the reverse engraved ´Col. C.P. Keyes. C.B. Mds. S.C.´ - London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Amateur Photographic Exhibition Prize Medal, bronze, the obverse featuring three cherubs in a studio, the reverse engraved ´Maj: Gen: Sir Chas. Keys [sic]´, generally very fine or better (3) Estimate £ 30-50 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Patton Keyes, K.C.B., Commissioned Ensign, April 1843; promoted Lieutenant, November 1848; commanded the 1st Punjab Infantry with the force which accompanied Sir Charles Napier into the Kohat Pass in February 1850 (received the thanks of His Excellency and the Local Government); was present with the Regiment in the relief of a body of Mooltanees in a town on the Kohat-Kotal was surrounded by the Pass Aspeedes in March 1850, on which occasion the Regiment was unaided and sustained heavy losses (received the thanks of the Government). He was on field service with the Regiment in May 1852 when they made a forced march of 70 miles into action, and was present at Prang-ghar, Tsha-kote, Errosha, and several other minor affairs in the Eusufzie and Ranazie Valleys (received the thanks of the Government); in December 1852 he took command of two companies of the Regiment in a secret expedition against the Omerzie Waziris in the Kafir Kote Hills; the following year he commanded a wing of the Regiment on field service against the mountain tribes in the Salimanee range. Appointed to the command of the Scinde Rifle Corps, 1854, and served with them in operations in the Meranzie Valley. Promoted Captain, February, 1860; Commanded the 1st Punjab Infantry in the expedition against the Waziris, April 1860 (received the special thanks of the Supreme and Local Governments, and of the Secretary of State for India; appointed Brevet Major); Major, April 1863; Commanded the 1st Punjab Infantry and Hazara Mountain Battery at Satana, August 1863; joined the Kinteyla Field Force, October 1863, and served throughout the Umbeyla Campaign (severely wounded; received the special thanks of the Commander-in-Chief and of the Supreme and Local Governments; Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel and C.B.); organised and commanded a secret expedition against the Bezoties, February 1869 (received the special thanks of the Supreme and Local Governments, and of the Secretary of State for India; appointed Brevet Colonel); commanded the expedition into the Dour Valley, 1870 (received the thanks of the Government of India); appointed Brigadier-General Commandant of the Punjab Frontier Force and the Kohat Column, and served with the expedition against the Jowaki Afridis, 1877-78 (Mentioned in Despatches, received the thanks of the Government of India, and advanced K.C.B.); promoted Major-General, July 1881; Lieutenant-General, December 1886.

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