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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 437

Three: Lieutenant-General J.C. Rattray [C.B.], 90th Light Infantry Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (Capt. J.C. Rattray. 90th. Regt.), officially impressed, with top silver riband buckle; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, two clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (Capt. J.C, Rattray, 90th. Lt. Inf.); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, Hunt & Roskill issue, unnamed, with swivel ring suspension, minor contact marks, nearly very fine or better (3) Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 C.B. London Gazette 20.5.1871 Colonel James Clerk Rattray, 90th Regiment. Lieutenant-General James Clerk Rattray, C.B., Commissioned Ensign, 90th (Perthshire Volunteers) Light Infantry, January 1851; Promoted Lieutenant, August 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimean Campaign from December 1854, present at the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and severely wounded at the assault on the Redan, 8.9.1855; Captain, September 1855; served with the Regiment in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, was present with Havelock´´s Column at the relief and subsequent defence of Lucknow, defence of the Alum Bagh under the command of Outram, and the capture of Lucknow under Sir Colin Campbell (Twice Mentioned in Despatches); Major, January 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 1864; Colonel, June 1869; Appointed a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, May 1871; Appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant, County of Perth, April 1878; Major-General, August 1879; Lieutenant-General, July 1881.

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