Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Moffatt, 19th Regiment, later a Military Knight of Windsor
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Ensign, 19th Regt.) officially impressed naming, this rubbed; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Captn., 1st Bn. H.Ms. 19th Regt.); Coronation 1911; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, all fitted with contemporary silver ribbon brooches and contained in an old fitted case, nearly very fine (4) £400-500

Ex Payne Collection.

William Henry Moffatt was born in Athlone on 7 September 1834, son of the Revd. James Robert Moffatt, Rector of Athlone. He served in the Crimea, including the fall of Sebastopol to the end of the war (medal with clasp and Turkish medal). Served in India during the Mutiny (no medal), and towards the close of 1860 was twice in command of patrols engaged against the hill tribes of Sikkim. He took part in the Hazara campaign of 1868, including the expedition against the tribes of the Black Mountain (medal and clasp). He was appointed a Military Knight of Windsor in March 1904, and died at Windsor on 20 June 1915. Sold with further research including several photocopies of group photographs including Moffatt.