Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Colonel G. C. Bartholomew, 10th Foot

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Captn. G, C, Bartholomew, 1st. Batn. 10th. Regt.); Abyssinia 1867 (Captn. G. C. Bartholomew H.M: 2/10 Regt.) suspension re-affixed on latter; edge bruising and minor contact marks, generally very fine, extremely rare to unit (2) £800-£1,000

Sotheby’s, July 1987.

One of only two Abyssinia Medals awarded to the 10th Foot [the other to Captain R. Annesley, 2nd Battalion, 10th Foot, who, with 19 elephants, commanded a division of the Transport Train].

George Churchill Bartholomew was born in Devonshire on 31 December 1829 and was commissioned Ensign, by purchase, in the 10th Regiment of Foot on 17 May 1850. He was promoted Lieutenant, by purchase, on 13 February 1852, and Captain on 31 August 1858. Serving in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, he commanded a Mounted Detachment of his Regiment during the operations against the rebels in the Shahabad district from October 1858 to January 1859, as part of Brigadier Douglas’s Field Force, and was several times engaged with the enemy (Mentioned in Despatches). He saw further service during the Abyssinian campaign 1867-68. He was promoted Major on 5 July 1872, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 May 1880, and was later advanced Colonel on the Retired List.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient; and a group photographic image of the Officers of the 2nd Battalion at Rangoon in 1872 in which the recipient is identified.