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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 141

(x) Pair: Captain C. O. Halliday, Bengal Sappers & Miners, who commanded a Company during the Relief of Chitral and was latterly Electric Light Officer during the 1903 Durbar

Delhi Durbar 1903; India General Service 1895-1908, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieut. C. O. Halliday. R. E. Bl. Sappers & Miners), light contact wear, very fine (2)

Provenance:
Spink, April 2000.

Charles Ogilvie Halliday was born in India in October 1867, the son of Frederick and Anne Halliday, his father being a member of the Bengal Civil Service. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Engineers on 23 November 1889, directly from the Royal Indian Engineering College.

Advanced Lieutenant on 23 November 1892, he was posted to the Indian Establishment on 14 April 1893 and joined the Military Works Department in India on 8 September 1893 as Assistant Engineer Grade I. Later that same month he was posted to the Indian Sub-Marine Mining Company on 29 September.

Posted to the Bengal Sappers and Miners he served with the Chitral Relief Force as Commanding Officer of No. 6 Company. He was instrumental in the construction of a bridge over the Jandol River during the campaign. Later Halliday was present at the action in the Malakand Pass, and afterwards in the Tirah and Punjab Frontier operations of 1897-98 in the Bazar Valley and Khyber Pass, latterly in command of a 'Flare Light Detachment'.

Advanced to Captain on 15 August 1900 Halliday became one of five officers who arranged the electric lighting at the 1903 Delhi Durbar. His appointment on the roll appears as 'Electric Light Officer', with responsibility for the design and installation of electric lighting in Central Camp and Delhi Fort.

Returning to the Indian Sub-Marine Mining Company at Bombay in July 1904 he died at Poona on 18 October 1906. Halliday is buried at St. Sepulchre Cemetery, Poona; sold together with copied research.

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Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£320