The Military General Service Medal for Chrystler’s Farm awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Gore, C.B., 89th Foot, one of only three officers of the regiment who lived to claim the clasp for this action; he was taken prisoner at Niagara on 25 July 1814 and detained until the end of the American War
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Chrystler’s Farm (H. R. Gore, Capt. 89th Foot.) one very minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare £14,000-£18,000

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2005.

Only three M.G.S. medals with ‘Chrystler’s Farm’ clasp issued to officers of the 89th Foot, out of a total of only 17 officers to receive this clasp from British or Canadian regiments. The medal to Captain J. M. Shand, 89th Foot, was sold in these rooms on 14 April 2021.

Henry Ross Gore was first commissioned in the 32nd Foot on 13 November 1800, becoming Lieutenant in the 89th Foot on 16 March 1803. He became Captain in the 7th Garrison Battalion on 4 December 1806, and exchanged back to the 89th on 5 February 1807.

He was a survivor of the wreck of the transport Isabella on 13 December 1805, on Texel, Batavian Republic, when he was made a prisoner of the Dutch. He served with the 89th Regiment in the American war of 1812-14, including the actions at Chrystler’s Farm on 11 November 1813, and Niagara on 25 July 1814, where he was taken prisoner and detained until the end of the war in February 1815. He also served with the 89th throughout the Burmese war, and commanded a detachment under Major Sale in defence of the lines of Rangoon, his regiment being five times in action during the campaign (Medals for Chrystler’s Farm and Ava).

Gore was made brevet Major on 12 August 1819; exchanged to half-pay of the 3rd Foot on 17 April 1835; and made brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 10 January 1837 (commission backdated; awarded 14 March 1851, when appointed to the 66th Foot, retired same day). He was made a Companion of the Bath on the occasion of the Coronation of William IV on 26 September 1831.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gore subsequently held the appointment as Barrack Master at Fethard, Cashel and Tipperary, where he died on 21 April 1853.