Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Corporal of Horse E. S. Tomney, 2nd Life Guards, Yeoman of the King’s Bodyguard, late Sergeant Trumpeter, Royal 1st Devon Imperial Yeomanry

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (842 Corpl. of Horse E. Tomney, 2nd Life Gds.); Coronation 1902, bronze; Coronation 1911; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (842 Corpl. of Horse E. S. Tomney, 2nd Life Gds.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Cpl. of H. E. Tomney, 2-L. Gds.) surname officially corrected; Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. (649 Sjt. Tptr. E. S. Tomney, Rl. 1st Devon I.Y.); Khedive’s Star 1882, mounted as worn, edge bruising, pitting and contact wear with minor loss to parts of naming, good fine and better (7) £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. notified in Army Orders of May 1906.

M.S.M. notified in A.O. 93 of 1922, without Annuity.

Edward Stephen Tomney was born in 1849 at Spike Island, Cork, and enlisted as a Boy, aged 14, into the 14th The King’s Hussars on 15 January 1863.He was appointed Trumpeter in December 1868 and transferred to the 2nd Life Guards in 1875. He served with the 2nd Life Guards, as Corporal of Horse, in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, including the infamous ‘moonlight charge’ of the Household cavalry at Kassassin and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, where he had his horse shot under him, and at the capture of Cairo. In 1883 he transferred to the Permanent Staff of the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and was appointed Trumpet-Major of that unit upon his discharge from the Life Guards in September 1895. Tomney was appointed to Her Majesty’s Yeomen of the Guard on 5 January 1899, and received his M.S.M. whilst still holding that appointement in 1922.