Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major-General H. G. White, Royal Scots

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, this loose on riband (Capt. H. G. White. 1st. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming; Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1902, silver, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, a contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’ (Capn. Henry George White. Royal Regiment) contemporarily impressed naming, with small swivel ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, the 1897 Jubilee medal with a couple of work marks to reverse, generally nearly very fine and better (4) £500-£700

Henry George White was born in Windsor on 22 September 1835, the son of the Rev. Henry White, and was educated at Leamington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Foot on 30 December 1853, and having been promoted Lieutenant on 29 December 1854, served in the Crimea in the trenches before Sebastopol, including the assault on the Grand Redan. Promoted Captain on 30 March 1858, he then served in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, as part of the force under Sir Hugh Rose in the Deccan and in Central India in pursuit of Feroze Shah and Tantia Topi (Medal and clasp).

Promoted Major on 25 March 1871, White served on Lord Wolseley’s staff at the occupation of Cyprus in 1878, and having been promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 21 June 1880, commanded the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots, during the Bechuanaland Expedition 1884-85(Mentioned in Despatches). He was promoted honorary Major-General upon his retirement in June 1885, and died at his home of Lough Eske Castle, Co. Donegal, on 24 June 1906.

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