Orders, Decorations and Medals

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Capt. H. W. Sidney, 1st Dragn. Gds.) officially impressed naming, good very fine £700-900

Henry Marlow Sidney was born on 13 May 1835 at Brighton, Sussex. He entered the Army as a Cornet in the 1st Dragoon Guards on 13 May 1853; Lieutenant, 14 August 1857; Captain, 21 September 1861; Captain 12th Lancers, 22 October 1861; retired 1865.

Captain Sidney served with the 1st Dragoon Guards in the China campaign of 1860; was engaged at Sinho, present at the fall of the Taku Forts, and engaged in the actions of 18th and 21st September, and also in the advance on Pekin (Medal with 2 clasps).