Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major C. G. Walsh, 14th Regiment Native Infantry, attached Goorkha Force

Sutlej 1845-46, for Ferozeshuhur 1845, no clasp (Lieut., 14th Regt. N.I.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Major [no initials given], Attd. Goorkha Force), both onetime used as menu-holders, the first being fitted with a replacement riband bar and the last with incisions between its clasp and backstrap, edge bruising, otherwise about very fine and better (2) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Charles Gustavus Walsh, who was born in Dublin in 1810, was posted as an Ensign to the 14th Regiment of Native Infantry in November 1828. Present with that regiment at Ferozeshuhur, where he was wounded and had his horse killed, he gained advancement to Brevet Captain, and acted as Second-in-Command of the Ludhiana Regiment between August 1846 and December 1847. Next actively engaged during the Indian Mutiny, he served as a Major attached to the Goorkha Force between February and April 1858, and commanded the unit at the siege and capture of Lucknow. Walsh was next appointed to the command of the Ludhiana Regiment, as a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and served in the Second China War with the force established for the protection of Shanghai against the Taiping rebels. He retired in the honorary rank of Colonel in the course of 1861 and died at Dundrum, Co. Dublin, in November 1866.