Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant F. de C. Helbert-Helbert, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieut., 1st-R. Welsh Fus.) late issue; Jubilee 1887, with loose clasp, 1897, silver, unnamed, good very fine and better (2) £350-450

Frederic de Courcy Helbert-Helbert was born in Brighton on 14 July 1862. He was educated at Winchester College. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry on 22 October 1881 but transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in November the same year. With the 1st Battalion he went to Burma in 1885 but was invalided home sick. During the Jubilee celebrations of 1887 he was A.D.C. to The Maharaja Holkar of Indor. He was placed on Half Pay in April 1888 but returned to Full Pay in May 1889 and was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor and C-in-C., New South Wales, a post he held until November 1891. In November 1892 he transferred as a Captain to the Devonshire Regiment but retired with a gratuity in February 1895. On 28 August 1895 he became a Major in the 5th (Militia) Battalion Royal Fusiliers. He was removed from the Army on 23 April 1902 ‘His Majesty having no further use for his services’.

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