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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 381

(x) The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Minchin, D.S.O., Imperial Yeomanry, late Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry and Punjab Cavalry and formerly a distinguished Political Agent

Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel; Delhi Durbar 1903, with top riband buckle; Delhi Durbar 1911; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek; King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, mounted court-style as worn, toned, good very fine (7)


Charles Frederick Michin was born in September 1862 and was educated at Cheltenham College, the United Services College, Westward Ho! and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1882, he joined the Indian Army in 1885, with an appointment in the 1st Punjab Cavalry. By the early 1890s he was serving with the Political Department and was advanced to Political Agent in Baghelkhand in 1908 and Deputy Commissioner in Bannu from 1909.

During the last years of the nineteenth century Minchin was Second-in-Command of the British West Charterland Company expedition into the country surrounding Lake Ngami and he served with distinction in the Boer War, commanding the 18th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. He was awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 19 April 1901, refers). Minchin was placed on the Retired List in 1921 and died in December 1943; sold with copied research.


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