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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 184

x The India General Service 1854-95 Medal to Lieutenant-Colonel F.E. Carleton, King´s Own Scottish Borderers, Who Commanded the 1st Battalion During the Chin-Lushai Expedition, 1889-90 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Lieutt. Coln. F.E. Carleton K.O. Sco. Bord.), suspension slack, partially officially corrected, nearly very fine Estimate £ 380-420 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edmund Carleton (1844-1900), commissioned Ensign 24th Foot, 1861; transferred Lieutenant King´´s Own Scottish Borderers, 1864; served with the Regiment as part of the Peshawar Valley Field Force during the Second Afghan War, 1878-80, and took part in the Lughman Valley expedition, the expedition against the Wazir Kugianis, and the expedition into the Hissarak Valley (medal); advanced Major 1881; Lieutenant-Colonel 1889; Officer Commanding 1st Battalion King´´s Own Scottish Borderers during the Chin-Lushai Expedition, 1889-90; during this campaign 21 men of the regiment died of sickness and six officers and 273 men had to be invalided, this amounted to over half the battalion strength at the time; Carleton, and his Second in Command Major G.O. Stoney, were both invalided home, with the latter dying that year; Carleton was forced to retire due to poor health 1893; he lived for another eight years before dying in Plymouth.

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