Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Sergeant H. Gilmore, Army Hospital Corps, late 43rd Foot

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (619 Sergt. Hy. Gilmour, 43rd Foot), note surname spelling; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1802 Sergt. H. Gilmore, A.H. Corps), contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (2) £400-450

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

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Henry Gilmore, who was born in Chatham, enlisted in the 43rd Foot in Madras in February 1861, aged 18 years. Having then qualified for his New Zealand Medal for services as a Sergeant in the period December 1863 to March 1866, he transferred to the Army Hospital Corps in the following year, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in AO 56 of 1880. Gilmore was finally discharged as a Staff Sergeant at Aldershot in March 1882, his scars then including ‘several leech bites over his abdomen and right side’; sold with the recipient’s original parchment certificate of discharge, and a pencilled note dated 23 September 1915, possibly for forwarding the above awards from his widow to their son, in which she states. ‘I know that you will like the enclosed in memory’.