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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 380

(x) The mounted pair of miniature dress medals worn by Captain C. O. Halliday, Sappers & Miners

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Tirah 1897-8, Relief of Chitral 1895; Delhi Durbar 1903, mounted as worn, very fine (2)

Charles Ogilvie Halliday was born in October 1867 and was commissioned from the Royal Indian Engineering College in November 1889. Advanced Lieutenant in November 1892, he was present at the Relief of Chitral in 1895 and in 1897 'he accompanied the Mohmund and Tirah Field Forces in charge of the Wells flashlight sections' (Army & Navy Gazette 27 October 1906, refers). Promoted Captain in August 1900, Halliday commanded the 2nd Company, Bombay Sappers & Miners from February 1904. He died, aged 29, whilst Garrison Engineer at Poona in October 1906; sold with copied research.

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