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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 500

The China War Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. F. Strange, who travelled with the 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot on the China Expedition and later served as second in command to the 25th (The King's own Borderers) Regiment of Foot under Sir Henry Frederick Campbell, K.C.B., G.C.H.

China 1842 (H. F. Strange, Major, 26th Regiment Foot.), original straight bar suspension, two heavy edge nicks, very fine

Henry Francis Strange was born on 6 January 1798, the third son of Captain Alexander Strange. Appointed Ensign on 23 May 1815, he was promoted Lieutenant on 7 April 1825, Captain on 29 June 1826, Major on 20 October 1842 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 4 July 1854. During an army career spanning 41 years, he was present at the defence of Ningpo, at Tscke, Chapoo, Woosung, Shanghae, Chin Kiang Foo and Nankin.

Strange married Maria Laetitia Bland, daughter of Major Nathaniel Bland in 1800, with issue of two sons. He died on 5 January 1879, at 19 Pelham Place, South Kensington, London. At the reading of his will a month later, his son, Thomas Bland Strange, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery was listed as his sole executor; sold with copied research from Hart's Army List, 1856.


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