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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 141

A Second Afghan War casualty's pair awarded to Sergeant J. McNally, 92nd Highlanders, who was wounded by a gunshot to his hand at the battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880

Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (1983 Sergt. J. McNally, 92nd Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (1983 Sergt. J. McNally, 92nd Highlanders), contact marks and edge bruising, thus fine or better (2)

John McNally is confirmed as having been wounded at Kandahar on 1 September 1880; The Second Afghan War 1878-80 Casualty Roll, by Anthony Farrington, refers.

As recounted in Sydney Shadbolt's Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, the 92nd Highlanders were hotly engaged at the Battle of Kandahar:

'In the crowning defeat of the enemy at the battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880, the day succeeding the arrival of the Division at the southern capital, the Regiment, as one of the two leading battalions in the right attack, played a conspicuous part, being engaged in the successive capture of the villages of Gandi Mullah Sahibdad, and Pir Paimal, and finally carrying at the point of the bayonet the entrenched position on which the enemy had taken up their last stand. The casualties on this day numbered 14 Non-Commissioned Officers and men killed, two officers and 70 Non-Commissioned Officers and men wounded. In the engagement Captain Menzies' life was saved by Privates Dennis and Roddick, who received the Distinguished Conduct Medal for their gallantry, as did also Lance-Corporal McIntosh, Corporal McGilevray, and Privates Gray and Grieve.'



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