The group of four miniature dress medals attributed to General F. A. E. Loch, Indian Army

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B., 17mm., gold and enamel, straight-bar and loop suspension with gold riband buckle; Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India; Abyssinia 1867, mounted as worn with gold riband buckle, the last with slightly bent swivel-suspension, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (4) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals - The Property of a Gentleman.

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Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004.

Francis Adams Ellis Loch entered the Bombay Army in 1844 and was twice Mentioned in Despatches for services during the Punjab Campaign and in Abyssinia. Appointed Commandant of the Scinde Frontier Force, he was created C.B. in 1873 and later served as Political Resident at Aden from 1877 to 1882. Advanced General in the Bombay Staff Corps, he died at his residence in Richmond, Surrey, on 27 July 1891.