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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 10

A Fine ´Maiwand´ D.C.M. Group of Four to Driver J. Bishop, "E" Battery "B" Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (3426. Driv: J. Bishop. R.H.A.)
b) Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Kandahar (3426. Driv: J. Bishop. E. Batt: B. Bde. R.H.A.)
c) India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 1889-92, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Sergt. J. Bishop Comt. Dept.)
d) Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Sergt. J. Bishop Comt. Transpt. Dept.), last locally impressed, as issued from India, light contact marks throughout, therefore very fine or better (4)

D.C.M. Recommendation submitted to the Queen 1.2.1881, award approved 5.3.1881: ´For conspicuously gallant conduct during the action at Maiwand and subsequent retreat to Kandahar on 27th and 28th July last.´

For services in Afghanistan ´E´ Battery R.H.A. received the special thanks of the Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief in General Orders, ´and the following officers, non-commissioned officers, and men were decorated: Captain Slade, with a Companionship of the Bath; Sergeant Mulane and Gunner Collis, with the Victoria Cross; Sergeant-Major Paton, Quartermaster-Sergeant Munroe, Sergeant Burridge, Corporal Thorogood, Bombadier Payne, Gunner Tighe, Driver Bishop, and Trumpeter Jones, with the medal for distinguished conduct in the field´ (WO 100/54; WO 146/1; and The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880, Shadbolt, refers).

Provenance:
Brian Ritchie Collection, September 2004

Sold for
£13,000