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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 92

A Rare Burma 1887 Gold D.S.O. Group of Five to Colonel R.E. Golightly, Imperial Yeomanry, Late King's Royal Rifle Corps Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel; Afghanistan 1878-80, two clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (Lieut. Robt. E. Golightly. 2/60th Foot), letter 'y' in surname officially corrected; Kabul to Kandahar Star (Lieut. R.E. Golightly 2/60 Foot); India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Captain R.E. Golightly 4th Bn. K.R.Rif.C.); Queen's South Africa, four clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Capt. R.E. Golightly D.S.O. 1/Impl. Yeo.), last clasp loose on riband, very fine or better, mounted as worn, in modern display frame (5) Estimate £ 4,000-4,500 C.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1918 D.S.O. London Gazette 25.11.1887 "Robert Edmund Golightly, Capt., King's Royal Rifle Corps, Mounted Infantry, Burma Expeditionary Force. For services in Burma." Colonel Robert Edmund Golightly C.B.E., D.S.O. (1856-1935), born at Shipton Moyne, Tetbury; educated at Eton and Sandhurst; Sub-Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifles 1876; he served with his regiment in the Afghan War, 1878-80, was present at the action of Takt-i-Pul, and advance and occupation of Kandahar and Khelat-i-Ghilzie; marched from Kabul to Kandahar with Sir Donald Stewart's force; present at the action of Urzoo (Despatches), marched from Kandahar to Kabul with Sir F. Robert's force and was present at the battle on 1st September (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 30.7.1880); Superintendent of Army Signalling in the Mari Expedition; Acting Quartermaster to the 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifles during the Boer Campaign 1881; Adjutant 2nd Battalion, 1881-85; Captain 1886; Officer Commanding the Mounted Infantry, 6th Brigade, Upper Burma Field Force 1886-87 (twice Mentioned in Despatches; D.S.O. 25.11.1887); Assistant Adjutant General Meerut Division, 1889; Adjutant, 1st Volunteer Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 1890; served in South Africa 1900-April 1901 as Officer Commanding 1st Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 10.9.1901); Colonel 1901; Commanded 8th Provisional Battalion 1902-08; Section Commandant No.1 Lines of Communication, 1914; Defence Commander No.1 Lines of Communication, 1916; Assistant Director Territorial and Volunteer Forces, 1918

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