The Alan Cathery Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment

Pair: Colonel Walter Carr Mackinnon, 3rd Foot, Chief Instructor at the School of Musketry, Hythe, late 87th Irish Fusiliers

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut. W. C. McKinnon 87th Regt.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Jowaki 1877-8 (Major W. C. Mackinnon. 3rd Foot.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and unique to the Buffs (2) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Alan Cathery Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.

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The Robert F. Brett Collection of Medals to the Buffs, Dix Noonan Webb, September 1999.

Walter Carr Mackinnon served with the 87th Fusiliers in Bengal throughout the Indian Mutiny. He exchanged as Captain to the 3rd Foot on 25 December 1865, and was subsequently appointed Assistant Adjutant General of Musketry in Bengal. He took part in the expedition against the Jowaki Afridis in 1877-8, and was promoted to Major on 23 August 1878. He went on half pay of the 3rd Foot on 13 September 1879, but was made Lieutenant Colonel on 28 May 1884, and appointed Chief Instructor to the School of Musketry at Hythe. He retired with the rank of Colonel on 9 March 1899.