Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Major L. B. Cumberland, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a survivor from the Warren Hastings

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieut., 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt., K.R.R.C.) edge bruising, very fine (2) £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 60th Rifles and King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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Louis Bertie Cumberland joined the 60th Rifles in 1890. He served with the Isazai Expedition in 1892 and the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low in 1895, serving with the 1st Battalion from 30 April to the close of operations. He was a survivor from the troopship Warren Hastings when she ran aground and was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, on 14 January 1897. Serving in the Boer War, he was severely wounded at Amersfort, 8 August 1900 - one of two officers and 11 other ranks to be wounded in the action. He also saw action at Wagon Hill, Laing’s Nek and Lydenburg. He retired in 1906.

Sold with a copied photograph and research.