Orders, Decorations and Medals

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut. F. Whittuck, Bo. N.I.) good very fine £350-400

Frank Whittuck was born on 16 July 1856, the fifth son of Captain Whittuck, late 82nd Regiment, of Ellsbridge House, Keynsham, Somersetshire. He was educated at the Hermitage, Lansdown, and Sydney College, Bath, thence at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In January 1876 he was gazetted into the 1st Battalion 17th Regiment and thence into the 12th Bombay Native Infantry. After several other postings he was subsequently transferred to the 1st Bombay Grenadiers. With the Grenadiers he served in Burrow’s Brigade to the Helmand, and in the return march to Khushk-i-Nakhud. Lieutenant Whittuck was present with them at the battle of Maiwand, being one of three officers of the regiment to escape unscathed from the battle. However, the retreat to Kabul and the subsequent siege proved too much for the young Lieutenant; contracting dysentery, he died on 6 September 1880. Sold with copied research.