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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 375

(x) The mounted group of five miniature dress medals worn by Major-General R. N. Tinley, Cape Mounted Rifles, late 39th Foot

Maharajpoor Star 1843, with attractively engraved centre; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; France, Legion of Honour; Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian die, mounted as worn on conjoined riband buckle with gold retaining pin, good very fine and most attractive (5)


PROVENANCE:
Bonhams, December 1999, Lot 12.

Robert Newport Tinley was born in 1811 and was appointed Ensign in the 39th (Dorsetshire) Foot in 1832. Promoted Captain in 1840, he was severely wounded at Maharajpoor in 1843. He subsequently witnessed further active service in the Crimea as a Lieutenant-Colonel and led his regiment's attack on the Redan on 18 June 1855, in addition to the actions in the trenches and during the night attack of 2 September. Tinley went on to serve with distinction with the Cape Mounted Rifles and retired as a Major-General in May 1866. He died at St. Helier, Jersey on 10 July 1877; sold with copied research.

A fine watercolour of Tinley in the uniform of the Cape Mounted Rifles, by Richard Simkin, is held in the collection of the National Army Museum (Accession No. NAM.2014-02-43-1).


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Sold for
£420