Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. Croslegh, 23rd Sikh Pioneers, late South Wales Borderers
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, South Africa 1901, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., S. Wales Bord.), clasps mounted in that order; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Lieut., 23rd Sikh Pioneers); British War and Victory Medals (Maj.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj., 2-3 S. Prs.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (Captain, 23rd Sikh Pioneers), mounted for wear, some contact marks, very fine (6) £1200-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Tibet Medals 1903-04 formed by Colonel Richard H. Harris.

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Evan Leigh Croslegh was born on 30 October 1880. He served in the Boer War with the South Wales Borderers and Royal Berkshire Regiments. There he served in operations in the Orange River Colony, June-July 1900; in Cape Colony south of the Orange River, June 1900; in Cape Colony north of the Orange River, June-November 1900; in Transvaal, May-September 1901; in the Orange River Colony, January-February 1901 and in Cape Colony, November 1900-January 1901 and February-May 1901. He was embodied in the Militia for 1 year, 252 days and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia into the Royal Berkshire Regiment in November 1901. Transferring to the Indian Army in April 1903, he served with the 23rd Sikh Pioneers in the Tibet Expedition, 1903-04; seeing action at Niani and serving in the operations at and around Gyantse. Croslegh was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1904; Captain in May 1909; Major in September 1915 and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1924.