Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieutt. C. M. B. Godfrey 2d Bn. R. Sco. Fus.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £260-300

Charles Montagu Bell Godfrey was born on 29 April 1865, and educated at Cheltenham College. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 29 August 1885. After serving with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in Burma, Lieutenant Godfrey was involved in a fatal accident in Ireland in 1889 when duck shooting with a fellow officer, Lieutenant Douglas Ross. The former was about to fire, when Ross suddenly raised his head, receiving the full contents of the gun in his skull, causing his instantaneous death. In the original report published in the Irish Times on 2 August 1889, the names of the two officers were most unfortunately transposed causing an apology to be published. Sold with full details together with two copied photographs.