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Auction: 6007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 571

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, two clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (Major G.S. Macbean, Dep. Asst. Comy. Genl.), light contact mark to obverse, otherwise extremely fine Estimate £ 800-1,000General George Scougall Macbean. C.B., commissioned Ensign 74th Bengal Native Infantry, 1843; Lieutenant 1847; served in the Scinde as Commissariat Officer 1850; served with the Peshawur Force under Colonel Boileau which attacked and destroyed Boree and other villages (Medal and clasp); accompanied the Field Force from Mooltan to coerce Ali Moorad; Captain 1857; Aide-de-Camp to Major S.G.C. Renaud, 1st Madras Fusiliers, Commander of the Advance Relief Column for Cawnpore and Instigator of strict punitive measures during the period that Macbean was his A.D.C. (June 1857), including, "in two days forty-two men were hanged on the roadside, and a batch of twelve men were executed because their faces were ´turned the wrong way´ when they were met on the march. All villages in his front were burned when he halted" (History of the Indian Mutiny, Vol. II, Kaye and Malleson, refers); for full reference to Renaud´s Group see Spink Sale 21.7.2005 lot 338; served with General Havelock´s force, July-September 1857; present in the actions of Futtehpore, Auong, Pandoo Nuddee, Cawnpore, Oonao, Boorby-ka-Chokee, Busseeratgunge (both actions), Bithoor, Mungulwarah, for Major-General Sir James Outram´s successful defence of Alumbagh (November 1857-January 1858) for which he is noted in History of the Indian Mutiny, Vol. IV, Kaye and Malleson, as, "the able and energetic commissariat officer, without whose fertility of resource the army could not have been fed"; present at the first relief of Lucknow (praised in the General Orders by the Right Honourable the Governor General of India in Council in conjunction with the first relief of Lucknow, dated 22.12.1857; Mentioned in Despatches) and also present at the final relief of Lucknow; Brevet-Major 1858; Senior Commissariat Officer in the affairs of Rooya and Allygunge and of the Army in the Rohiland Campaign; present at the re-capture of Bareilly (for which he recieved the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief); Officiating Deputy Commissary General Bengal Staff Corps Lower Circle Calcutta, 1867; advanced Brevet-Colonel 1874; Deputy Commissary General for Lucknow 1875; served in the Afghan War (1878-80) as Deputy Commissary General with Khyber and Koorum Valley Forces (Medal; C.B. 1881); Lieutenant-General 1889; General 1894.

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