Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857 (Lieut. B. H. Burge, 59th Regt.) officially impressed naming, very fine £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Benjamin Henry Burge was born at Dublin on 17 July 1837, and appointed Ensign in the 59th Regiment on 18 August 1854. He was promoted Lieutenant on 21 July 1855, and proceeded with the regiment to Hong Kong the following October. Lieutenant Burge served as Aide-de-Camp to Colonel Graham at the assault and capture of Canton on 29th December 1857. He accompanied the force to the Peiho in June and was present at the assault and capture of Namtow on 11th August 1858 (Medal with Clasp).

Burge was promoted to Captain on the Half-pay in April 1870, and served as Adjutant, 6th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteers, from 1871 to 1875. After a further period on Half-pay with the 47th Regiment, he was appointed Adjutant of the 1st Lancaster Rifle Volunteers, 1877-78, and then served successively as Paymaster with the 76th Regiment (1879-80), the 59th Regiment (1881-82), and the 23rd Regimental District (1883-84). He became Honorary Major in September 1883, and was with the South Eastern District as Paymaster in 1885. He became Staff Paymaster in April 1885, and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1892, thereafter serving at Winchester and Gosport until his retirement on 17 July 1897. He died at Southsea on 21 February 1918.