Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

The very rare Kachin Hills campaign group of five to Acting Sergeant-Major C. W. McLagan, Nilgiri Volunteer Rifles, late Prince of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment

(a) India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Kachin Hills 1892-93 (1634 Sergt. C. McLagan, 2d Bn. P.W.O. Yorkshire Regt.)

(b) India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (1634 Sergt. C. McLagan, 2d Bn. York. Regt.)

(c) Delhi Durbar 1903 (1634 Sergt. C. McLagan, 2nd Bn. Yorks. Regt.) naming privately engraved in running script

(d) Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1st Cl. Sgt. Instr. C. W. McLagan, Bangl. Rifle Voltrs.)

(e) Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Actg. Sergt. Maj. C. W. McLagan, Nilgiri Vol. Rifles) contact marks, otherwise very fine or better £1800-2200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Ritchie Collection of H.E.I.C. and British India Medals.

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L.S. & G.C. AO 433 of 2 September 1907: 1st Class Sergeant-Instructor Charles W. McLagan, Bangalore Rifle Volunteers (With Gratuity).

M.S.M. AO 374 of 24 June 1912: Acting Sergeant-Major C. W. McLagan, Nilgiri Volunteer Rifles (Silver Medal with annuity of £5, to date from 19 January 1912).

Unfortunately service papers no longer survive for Charles William McLagan but we do know that he originally attested for the Prince of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regiment on 21 March 1885. He served with that regiment in the Kachin Hills and Tirah expeditions and was still on the strength of the regiment for the Delhi Durbar in 1903. He joined the India Unattached List on 20 May 1904 as a Volunteer Sergeant Instructor. In the India Unattached List of 1 January 1911, he is shown as serving with the Nilgiri Volunteer Rifles but his ‘Present’ (or Parent) Regiment is given as ‘2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders’, to which he must have trensferred sometime after 1903.