A fine campaign group of seven to Colonel C. Le G. Justice, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late 99th Foot and 13th Bengal Infantry

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (2nd Lieut. C. Le G. Justice, 99th Foot); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Sikkim 1888 (Lt. C. Le G. Justice, 13th Bl. Infy.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Capt. C. Le G. Justice, 13th Bl. Infy.); 1914-15 Star (Bt. Col., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Bt. Col.); Coronation 1911, mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (7) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Charles Le Gendre Justice was born at Meerut, India, on 5 August 1859, son of Captain (later Major-General, C.B.) W. C. Justice, 75th Regiment. He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 99th Foot on 11 May 1878, and served with that regiment in the Zulu war of 1879, being present at the battle of Ginghinlovo (Medal with Clasp). He was promoted to Lieutenant on 13 March 1880, and joined the Bengal Staff Corps, being appointed to the 12th Native Infantry in 1881, and to the 13th Native Infantry, as Wing Officer, in July 1882. As Adjutant of the 13th Bengal Infantry, he was present in the operations in Sikkim during 1888, including the attack and capture of enemy positions in the Jalep Pass (Medal with Clasp). Promoted to Captain in May 1889, Justice took part in the expedition to Manipur in 1891 but did not qualify for the appropriate clasp to his India medal. He became a Wing Commander of the 13th Bengal Infantry in August 1893, and, in 1895, took part in the operations for the relief of Chitral (Medal with Clasp). He became Major in May 1898, and was appointed Commandant of the 48th Bengal Pioneers in March 1901, with temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His period as Commandant of the 48th Pioneers ended in March 1903 and from that period he ceased to be employed, returning to England in May 1907 as Brevet Colonel.

On the outbreak of war in 1914, Justice was appointed to command the 8th Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, with whom he proceeded to France on 20 September 1915. On 17 November 1915 he was sent to the Macedonian theatre of operations but this appointment appears to have lasted for just two weeks. He relinquished command of the 8th Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. on 27 April 1916, and in July 1917 he was specially appointed as Deputy Assistant Censor, a position he held until July 1919. Colonel Justice died in London on 9 September 1933.