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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 48

The Canada General Service Medal awarded to Captain I. Colquhoun, 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment, latterly Chief Constable of Swansea, who raised a pension for Private J. Connolly, a hero of Rorke's Drift

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Capt. I. Colouhoun [sic] 2/17 Leic. Regt.), contemporarily engraved naming, very fine

Isaac Colquhoun, a scion of the Colquhouns of Luss was born in 1837, enlisted in the 17th Regiment in 1853 and was commissioned Ensign on 14 December 1855. Advanced Lieutenant on 14 May 1858, he was posted to the newly-formed 2nd Battalion in 1858. Promoted Captain on 11 September 1865, he served in Canada and the West Indies and resigned his commission in 1869.

After leaving the Army, he was Chief Constable of Swansea from 1877-1913. During this time he raised a pension to benefit John Connolly, a hero of Rorke's Drift. He died at Swansea on 25 November 1931.


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