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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 270

A C.B. Group of Five to Lieutenant-General R.B. Hawley, 89th Foot, Later Colonel Commandant 60th Foot
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) breast Badge, gold (Hallmarks for London 1877), and enamel, significant white enamel damage, with integral gold riband buckle
b) Crimea 1854-55, one clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued
c) Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast Badge, silver, gold applique, and enamel, minor red enamel damage
d) Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, silver, reverse officially engraved, 'Major Robert B. Hawley, 89 Regt.'
f) Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, with 'Hawley 60 Rifles' lightly scratched in obverse field, pierced for ring suspension as issued, light contact marks overall, therefore nearly very fine (5)

C.B. London Gazette 2.6.1877 Colonel Robert Beaufoy Hawley, half pay, late 60th Regiment

Lieutenant-General Robert Beaufoy Hawley, C.B. (1821-1898), born Upton Grey, Hampshire; a descendant of Lieutenant-General Henry Hawley, of West Green House, who commanded the cavalry at Culloden, and in the aftermath of the battle acquired the nickname of Hangman Hawley; commissioned Ensign, 89th Foot, August 1838; advanced Captain, January 1851; served with the regiment at the siege and fall of Sebastopol from 31.12.1854, and attacks on the 18th June and 8th September; served as Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General at Balaklava during 1856 (Brevet Major; 5th Class Medjidieh); Colonel, 60th Foot, May 1865; Major-General, March 1870; appointed Deputy Adjutant General, October 1878; Lieutenant-General, April 1883; Robert Hawley's wife Annie was buried in 1861 in the same parish church, St. Mary's, Hartley Wintney, as his ancestor Henry Hawley; he died in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

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