Group of four; Crimea one clasp "Sebastopol" (Lieut) period engraved; Indian Mutiny two clasps "Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow" (Lieut), Ashantee one clasp "Coomassie" (Bt. Lt. Col.); Turkish Crimea Sardinian issue to Lt.Col. J. De Vic Tupper, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Contact marks, edgebruising otherwise near very fine and better, together with the 4 related miniature medals, all contained in velvet-lined fitted case. All mounted as worn.
Lt Col Tupper entered the army as an Ensign 1854, serving in the Crimea at the siege and fall of Sebastopol (severely wounded at the attack on The Redan 8 September 1855), present during the Indian Mutiny and the relief and capture of Lucknow, the defeat of the Gwalior contingent at Cawnpore and operations including the affair at Ramgunga and the driving of the rebels from Oude into Nepal (Mentioned in Despatches); Captain 1859, Brevet Major 1872, embarked for the Gold Coast and served in the second phase of the Ashanti War 1873 (awarded Brevet Lt. Colonency). With a quantity of research including copy letters from Tupper’s father to the Duke of Wellington requesting the purchase of a commission for his son (mostly by Judith Farrington) including obituary from The Times 1881.
Ex Alec A. Purves Collection.
Value point: Good early to mid Victorian officer’s group contained in the original fitted medal case with miniatures and both groups mounted as worn.
near VF SOLD