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26 January 2022

Hammer Price:
£850

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (Lieut: P. E. Monckton. 9th By. 2nd Bde. R.A.) official correction to surname, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £400-£500

Philip Edmund Monckton was gazetted Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in July 1870; Captain, September 1880; Major, February 1886; Lieutenant-Colonel Retired, 12 December 1894.

Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton served throughout the operations in Perak from November 1875 to January 1877; was in command of the Royal Artillery in the attack on the Passir Salah stockades in November 1875, and was with No. 6 Battery, 2nd Brigade, in the advance of the main column under Major-General the Hon. Sir F. Colborne, and at the capture of Kinta in December 1875. Was Acting Assistant Resident at Kinta during the latter part of 1876, and received the thanks of the Governor of the Straits Settlements for his services (Medal with Clasp).

9 Battery, 2 Brigade, Royal Artillery, comprised two officer and sixty-two men under Captain W. O. C. Shippard and Lieutenant P. E. Monckton. The Royal Artillery was also represented in Perak by 3 Battery, 5 Brigade, with six officers and seventy men.