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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 537

A Scarce ´EL-Teb_Tamaai´ C.B., Double Issue Indian Mutiny Group of Six to Colonel A.G. Webster, 19th Hussars, Late Meerut Light Horse a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) breast Badge, gold (Hallmarks for London 1873) and enamel, with integral gold riband buckle b) Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Lieut. A.G. Webster, 1st Eurn. Lt. Cavy.) c) Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Lieut. A.G. Webster, 3rd L.C.) d) Egypt 1882-89, dated, three clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai (Lt. Col: A.G. Webster. 19th Hussars) e) Turkey, Order of the Osmanieh, Fourth Class breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage f) Khedive´s Star 1882, generally good very fine, all housed in a glass-fronted, velvet lined, stained mahogany display case (6) Estimate £ 2,700-3,000 Colonel Arthur George Webster, C.B. (1837-1916), born Cheltenham; educated at Cheltenham College; commissioned Cornet 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry 1856; Lieutenant 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry, 10.3.1857; Lieutenant 1st Bengal European Cavalry, 1.5.1858; served with Lind´s Mooltanee Horse during the Indian Mutiny (1857-58) and was present at Kakraole, operations before and at the capture of Bareilly, Shajehanpore and the capture of Mohundee (received a letter of thanks from the Government for services with the Meerut Light Horse in 1857); Captain 19th Hussars, 1869; Major 1881; Lieutenant-Colonel 1882; served with the regiment throughout the Egyptian War of 1882 and was present at the Battle of Tel-El-Kebir (M.I.D. London Gazette 2.11.1882; Order of the Osmanieh); served in the Soudan Expedition under Sir Gerald Graham in 1884, and was present in the engagements at El-Teb and Tamaai (C.B. London Gazette 21.5.1884; M.I.D. London Gazette 6.5.1884); Webster is mentioned in Rifleman and Hussar by Sir Percival Marling, V.C. for the 6th March 1884, Old Colonel Webster, 19th Hussars, was bathing one afternoon in the Red Sea. The water was about up to his chest. A lot of us young subalterns who had just finished bathing and were skylarking on the sand, shouted out "Look out Colonel, SHARK" and dashed into the sea pretending to rescue him. The old man fled for his life shouting "Fire! Help! Murder!" and even when he got on to the sand never stopped running till he fell quite exhausted in his tent some 200 yards away, and yelled for brandy. How we laughed.´ Provenance: Ex-Charles Lovell Collection

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