Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Hyderabad 1843 (Lieutt. C. A. Moyle, 21st Regt. N.I.) officially engraved in small serif capitals, fitted with silver clip and gold swivel-ring bar suspension, edge bruising, otherwise about very fine and scarce to an officer £1,000-£1,400

Sotheby’s, June 1970; Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009.

Charles Augustus Moyle was born in Poona on 17 October 1821, the second son of the surgeon John Grenfell Moyle, sometime President of the Medical Board of Bombay. He joined the Bombay Establishment as an Ensign on 22 December 1839 and was promoted to Lieutenant in the 21st Bombay N.I. in November 1841. He served with the Field Forces in the Scinde and Afghanistan from 1840 to 1843, and was present at the battle of Hyderabad (Medal); he also served with the force under Sir Charles Napier in pursuit of Meer Sheer Mahomed, and was present at the capture of the fort at Oomercote. He was later Colonel Commandant of the 28th Bombay Native Infantry. Colonel Moyle died at Poona on 28 December 1878, aged 56. His memoirs are held in The National Archives.

Sold with a photographic Carte de Visite image of the recipient wearing his medal.