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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 235

Miniature Awards: Group of Five Attributed to Major-General F.E. Sotheby, Rifle Brigade Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Lucknow; China 1857-60, two clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860; Ashantee 1873-74, one clasp, Coomassie; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, good very fine, mounted as worn from an ornate Hunt and Roskill, London, silver riband buckle (5) Estimate £ 240-280 Major-General Frederick Edward Sotheby, born Sewardstone, Essex, 1837, the only son of Rear-Admiral of the Blue Charles Sotheby. Commissioned Ensign, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, January 1855; Lieutenant, May 1855; served with the Rifle Brigade in the Crimea from 11 August 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol and storming of the Redan on 8 September; with the 2nd Battalion throughout the whole of its service in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, including the capture of Lucknow and numerous affairs during the Oude campaign; and throughout the campaign of 1860 in China, terminating with the surrender of Pekin; Captain, September 1860; Brevet Major, May 1873; embarked for the Gold Coast with the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, and served throughout the second phase of the Ashantee war, 1874, including the battle of Amoaful, battle of Ordahsu, and capture of Coomassie (Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel); Major, January 1877; Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel, July 1881; retired with the honorary rank of Major-General, August 1887. In July 1888, he was appointed to command the Birmingham Volunteer Infantry Brigade. Major-General Sotheby died at Ecton, Northamptonshire, February 1909. Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, 4.12.2002 (sold together with the recipient´s full size group)

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