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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 728

The Rare India General Service and Central Africa Medal Pair to Lieutenant A.H. Garden, 32nd Punjab Pioneers, Who Died of Fever, 1898 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Hazara 1891 (Lieut. A.N. (sic) Garden 32nd Pioneers); Central Africa 1891-98, one clasp, Central Africa 1894-98 (Lieut: A.H. Garden. 32: Punjab Pioneers), officially impressed, very fine or better, extremely rare (2) Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 Lieutenant Alexander Harry Garden, born 1868; Second Lieutenant Border Regiment 1888; transferred to Indian Army and was appointed Lieutenant Sikh Pioneers, 1890; seconded for three years service as a Lieutenant and Staff Officer of the British Central Africa Protectorate, 10.7.1897; Second-in-Command to Captain W.H. Manning in the Expedition to Chilwa, August 1897, against Chief Serumba of the Anguru, south of Lake Chilwa; also served in the expedition against Paramount Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni tribe, January-February 1898, during which campaign the British Central Africa Gazette gives Garden as commanding one of the four columns that advanced into the hill country east of Mpezeni´s Kraal, ´The object of these columns was completely attained, all opposition was broken down, and after several skirmishes every band of armed men dispersed. Large numbers of cattle were captured and many prisoners taken, the author and leader of the rising "Singu" having been captured by Lieut. Brogden´s column.´; a later edition of the same publication gives, ´Lieut. Garden died at Zomba on the morning of the 15th March from the effects of malarial fever contracted during the last Mpezeni expedition.´ Lieutenant Garden is buried in the Zomba Cemetery.

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