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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 399

(x) Abyssinia 1867-68 (Major W. Mosse. 26th. Regt.), a slightly later issue neatly and officially engraved in large serif capitals, virtually Mint state, with top silver riband buckle, together with the recipient's related miniature award, and the following related documents:
- Commission appointing William Mosse, Gent, to be an Ensign in the 26th Regiment of Foot, dated 21.8.1849
- Commission appointing William Mosse, Gent, to be a Lieutenant in the 26th Regiment of Foot, dated 5.12.1851
- Commission appointing William Mosse, Esq., to be a Captain in the 26th Regiment of Foot, dated 25.8.1854
- Commission appointing William Mosse, Esquire, to be a Major in the 26th Regiment of Foot, dated 4.4.1864
- Commission appointing William Mosse, Esquire, to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Land Forces, dated 28.3.1874
- The recipient's First Class Certificate in the Theory and Practice of Musketry, dated 8.8.1856
- Various letters to the recipient received during the course of his Army career

Lieutenant-Colonel William Mosse, born Woolwich, January 1829, the son of Major Charles Mosse, Royal Artillery; Commissioned Ensign, 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, August 1849; promoted Lieutenant, December 1851; Captain, August 1854; served two years as Instructor of Musketry; promoted Major, April 1864; served with the Regiment the Mediterranean, Bermuda, Canada, and India, and in the Abyssinian campaign in 1868; placed on half-pay, April 1873; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1874; retired, May 1874; died, May 1921.

For the medals to Miss Jessie Mosse and the Rev. Charles Mosse see Lot 620

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