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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 123

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. Churchill, 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (Capt: G. F. Churchill. 1st Goorkha. L. Infy.); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Cap: G. F. Churchill. 1st Goorkha.), good very fine

Purchased February 2003.

George Frederick Churchill was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into the 106th Foot from Sandhurst in March 1864 and was promoted Lieutenant in May 1867, having been Instructor of Musketry for his Regiment for a year or so. Appointed to the Bengal Staff Corps in October 1868, he was posted as a Wing Officer to the 1st Gurkas and made Adjutant in September 1870.

Firstly seeing active service in the Perak campaign of 1875-76 (Medal & clasp), he is specially noted as having taken a party of Rifles with Captain Barnett across the Perak River to rescue friendly Malays on 3 February 1876. They drove off the enemy to good effect. Made Captain in March 1876, he was to further serve in Afghanistan (Medal without clasp) from January-April 1879. Made Wing Commander in November 1882, he commanded the Viceroy's Guard at Simla in 1883 and was made Major in March 1884. Advanced Second-in-Command in January 1886, Churchill was made Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1890 and was retired in December 1892. The good Colonel died at Broadstairs, Kent on 24 February 1901; sold together with a good file of copied research.

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Estimate
£700 to £900

Starting price
£550