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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 114

Honourable East India Company´s Medal for Seringapatam 1799, 48mm, silver, Soho Mint, contained in an ornately chased silver rimmed glazed frame, with ringed suspension, the edge inscribed ´Cornet T.H.S. Conway, 2nd. Regt. Light. Cavalry.´, obverse glazed lunette replaced, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 600-800 Colonel Thomas Henry Somerst Conwat, C.B., Commissioned Cornet, 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry, Madras Presidency, 1798; promoted Lieutenant, September 1799; Captain, January 1810; served at the Battle of Maheidpore, 21.12.1817, as Adjutant General of the Army of the Deccan, and was Mentioned in the General Orders of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hislop, for ´his important services during the action fought yesterday, that can never be effaced from his [Hislop´s] memory´; again Mentioned after the operations against the fort at Talneir, 27.2.1818, ´the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Conway, Adjutant-General of the Army, and the increasing and energetic display of that officer´s personal courage and able arrangements throughout the day, were such as his Excellency well knew, from former experience, that he should derive the greatest benefit from. Sir Thomas Hislop begs the Lieutenant-Colonel to accept of his warmest thanks for the great aid he has on the present occasion had from him.´ Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his services in the Mahratta War, October 1918 (C.B. London Gazette 14.10.1818); he was advanced Brevet Colonel in June 1831. Colonel Conway died at Nackry Kul in May 1837. Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2002

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