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Auction: 24003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 54

India General Service 1854-1895, 1 clasp, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Lieutt Coln. F. E. Carleton 1st Bn K.O.Sco.Bord.), initials officially corrected, light pitting, very fine

Francis Edward Carleton was born in Queen's County, Ireland on 15 February 1844. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst he was commissioned Ensign from Gentleman Cadet on 29 January 1861 with the 25th Regiment of Foot. Further advanced Lieutenant on 1 March 1864 he was posted to India, being promoted Captain there on 3 September 1870.

Carleton appears on the 1871 Army Index at Bareilly, India in the rank of Captain, a rank he still held on the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. On his service in Afghanistan The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880 by Shadbolt states:

'Major F. E. Carleton served with the battalion in the second campaign, taking part in the Lughman Valley expedition, the expedition against the Wazir Kugainis, and the expedition into the Hissarak Valley.'

He must have performed well, being advanced Major in 1881 for his service. Carleton received his final promotion on 27 June 1889, taking command of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers that same year during the Chin-Lushai Campaign. Here they served under the Southern Column commanded by General Penn Symons.

Surviving the campaign Carleton retired from the Army just two years later in 1892. He died less than a decade later, having settled in Plymouth, the London Evening Standard ascribing his death to 'a short illness'; sold together with copied research.

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Estimate
£280 to £320

Starting price
£220