India General Service Medal  Northwest Frontier  3440 D. QUINN. H.M.S 32ND REGT.
Indian Mutiny Medal  Defence of Lucknow            D. QUINN. 32ND L.I.
Dennis Quinn was born in Monagh, Tipperary and enlisted into the 34th Foot July 1848 (No. 2992). Transferred to the 32nd Foot April 1849 (No. 3440). Service record states: "In Defence of Residency Lucknow from 30 June to 25 Nov. 57; at the Battle of Cawnpore 6 Dec. 1857." He was discharged January 1860 "allowed to reckon one year additional service on discharge granted by Her Majesty for defence of Lucknow."
30 June 1857 mutineers arrived north of Lucknow causing the British troops to move into the Residency and set up a defensive position (855 British officers and soldiers, 712 Indians, 153 civilian volunteers, and 1,280 civilians). The first attack was repulsed on 1 July. Around 8,000 sepoys had joined the rebel force. with a mix of modern and old canons. Several attempts to storm the position were fought off and then they settled down to a siege. 20 July Major General Havelock attempted to relieve Lucknow, but a battle at Unnao reduced his force to 850 men and he had to withdraw. 18 September Outram led a force of six British and one Sikh infantry battalions to Lucknow to attempt a relief. By the time he reached the Residency, the garrison was reduced to 982 fighting men. But now Havelock's force was so weak that they could not evacuate the Residency and so the siege continued. 14 November, Sir Colin Campbell began his relief of Lucknow. Two days later, after heavy fighting, his force approached the Residency. 19 November the operation to evacuate the Residency began, with the civilians escorted to Cawnpore.
The first siege had lasted 87 days, the second siege a further 61 days.
During the siege, the Union Jack was nailed to the flagpole and so flown continually (the custom was to take it down at dusk). After Luckno was retake, permission was given for the Union Jackto be flown 24 hours a day on the Residency's flagpole. The day before India became independent, the flag was lowered, the flagpole cut down, and the base removed and cemented over, to prevent any other flag ever being flown there.
Price: £2500  

India General Service Medal  Northwest Frontier   461 PTE J. JONES. 3 BN. RIF. BDE.    £320
John Jones was born in London and enlisted March 1855, aged 22. Served in India for 13 years.  He was sent to Darjeeling in 18709 suffering from fever. Returned to UK and discharged August 1871. Medal confirmed on roll. (JW)

India General Service Medal Northwest Frontier / Umbeyla  R.J. CHAIMBERS. 1ST TP. 1ST BDE.BENL ARTY.    £400
Bengal Horse Artillery.  (JW)

India General Service Medal Burma 1885-7   810 Pte. J. Walford. 2nd Bn R.W. Fus.    £200
John Walford was born in London and enlisted October 1884, aged 24. Served in India and Burma December 1885 to February 1892. Medal confirmed on roll. Discharged October 1896.  (JW)

India General Service Medal Burma 1885-7/Burma 1887-89   393 Pte A. Day. 2nd Bn R. Muns Fus.    £295
Medal confirmed on roll.  (JW)

India General Service Medal Burma 1885-7/Hazara 1891   694 Pte. M. Clarke, 1st Bn R.W. Fus.    £355
Matthew Clarke. Medal and clasps confirmed on roll.  (JW)

Afghanistan Medal Kandahar/Ahmed Khel 746 PTE. T. EVANS. 2/60TH FOOT.   £355
Thomas Evans was born 1841 and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1860. A year later he was serving in China and by 1871 was a Sergeant serving in India. However, by 1879 he was back to Private. Discharged March 1882. Clasps confirmed on roll. Discharge sheet shows entitlement to the Kabul to Kandahar Star.

India Medal  Punjab Frontier 1897-98    Captain M.S. Wellby 18^th Hussars.
Queen's South Africa Medal  Defence of Ladysmith/Orange Free State/Transvaal/Laing's Nek  Capt. M.S. WELLBY. 18/Hussars.
Montagu Sinclair Wellby was born in 1866. Educated at Rugby, he was commissioned into the 18th Hussars in August 1886. Author of "Through Unknwon Tibet" and "Twixt Sirdar and Menelik. An account of a Year's Expedition from Zeila to Cairo through Unknown Abyssinia." Wrote "King Menelek's Dominions and the Country between Lake Gallop and the Nile Valley" for The Geographical Journal (1900). Served with the Commissariat Transport Department, Tochi Field Force in India 1897 (medal). Served in the Defence of Ladysmith. 
Regimental History: "29 July 1900. Our two squadrons were assigned to the right and flank, and "B" under Captain Wellby were given advanced duties to perform. ... Captain Wellby, taking with him Sergeant Butcher and a few men, proceeded down the Schalk Spruit. Whilst he was engaged shooting at some Boers, others attacked him. He took up a position in a kraal and succeeded keeping them at bay until a larger party of some 30 Boers advanced under cover to close range. He bid the men with him to mount and gallop for their lives whilst he kept off the advancing Boers. When all his men had cleared, leaping on his horse, he attempted to follow them, but the Boers were within 10 yards of him. His indignant refusal to their appeal "hands up", they fired, mortally wounding him in the stomach."
"On August 5th, at 3.30 am, Captain Wellby died after 48 hours unconsciousness. He was brought in on August 2nd from a kraal. For the first few days he seemed to be making fair recovery, but it was found that he was never out of danger. His funeral was held at Zandspruit and he was buried near the railway station at 3.30 pm. In Captain Wellby the regiment lost one of its best officers. His exploits in travel and exploration are well-known. His loss, the first casualty among our officers, was not only a loss to the regiment to also a great one to England."
Pair: £1750