Orders, Decorations and Medals

Photograph Album, containing 25 photographs taken during the Tibet Expedition, the album is inscribed, ‘Photographic views of Tibet taken by Sgt. Rayment 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers’ and was the property of ‘Gladys Bellamy, 17 Gladstone St., Langley Mill, Notts.’, one photo loose, leather covers worn, leaves discoloured and torn, some photographs faded, rare £400-500

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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A note from the vendor states that the album was acquired together with the medals of lot 156.

All the photographs are identified; captions include: ‘View of Battlefield at “Guru” after the Battle’; ‘On the road to Lhasa 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers halted on the road near “Lake Dockea”’; ‘Village of “Niani” about 8 miles from Gyantse the enemy were found here in force on 26th June and a battle fought’; ‘Gyantse fort, captured on the 6th of July 1904 by a mixed party of Royal Fusiliers and Gurkahs (sic)’; ‘1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers hoisting Union Jack on the highest towers of the captured fort’; ‘General MacDonald watching the firing on the rifle ranges at Lhasa’; Chinese soldiers, the bodyguard of the Chinese Amban at Lhasa’; Grand Llama’s Palace Lhasa, the treaty was signed in the council chamber, the palace contains an image of the god Bhudda 10 ft high’; ‘Condemned Llama who made a murderous assault on Capt. Cooke-Young, I.M.S.’; ‘On the banks of the Bhramaputra, waiting for boats’; ‘Crossing the Bhramaputra ....’

3760 Sergeant George Rayment, 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers, was awarded the D.C.M. for the attack on Gyantse (London Gazette 2 May 1905).