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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 5

An 1885 'Egyptian Campaign' C.B. Group of Seven to Colonel E.S. Walcott, Bombay Infantry, Later Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) breast Badge, gold (Hallmarks for London 1882) and enamel, split-ring suspension replaced with small soldered claw to facilitate mounting, with integral gold riband buckle
b) China 1857-60, no clasp (Lieutt. E.S. Walcott. 5th. Bombay, N.I.), a post-1873 later issue
c) Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Kandahar (Maj. E.S. Walcott. Act: Dy. C. Gl.)
d) Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (Col: & A.C. Gen: E.S. Walcott. Bom: Comt. Dept.)
e) Coronation 1902, silver
f) Territorial Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1909), with integral top riband bar
g) Khedive's Star 1884-6, backstraps on both clasps replaced to facilitate mounting, light contact marks to campaign medals and minor green enamel damage to reverse wreath on C.B., otherwise good very fine, mounted court-style (7)

C.B. London Gazette 25.8.1885 Colonel Edmund Scopoli Walcott, Bombay Infantry

T.D. London Gazette 3.5.1910 Colonel (retired, Indian Army; Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel, retired, Volunteers) Edmund Scopoli Walcott, C.B., Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment

Colonel Edmund Scopoli Walcott, C.B., T.D., born Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland, 1842; Commissioned Ensign, Bombay Infantry, March 1860; Promoted Lieutenant, May 1862; Captain, October 1869; Major, March 1880; served as Acting Deputy Commissariat General during the Second Afghan War, and Mentioned in Despatches for the Siege of Kandahar (London Gazette 3.12.1880); promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 'in recognition of his services during the late Afghan Campaign', March 1881; Colonel, March 1885; served in the Sudan Expedition with the Bombay Commissariat Department, Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 25.8.1885), and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath; retired from the Indian Army and transferred to the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, November 1889; Appointed Sheriff for the County of Devonshire, and Deputy-Lieutenant, 1902; Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, April 1908. Colonel Walcott died at home in Exeter, October 1923.

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