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Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Captn. T. C. Squire, 13th. Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £1400-1800

Tristram Charnley Squire was born at Stoke Dameval, Devon, on 4 December 1786 and was commissioned Ensign in the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot on 24 April 1909, having previously served as a Lieutenant with the 2nd Royal Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia. He was promoted Lieutenant in the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot on 31 January 1910, before transferring to the 7th Royal Fusiliers on 1 March 1810. He served with the Regiment in the Peninsula from 1810 to 1813, under the command of Colonel Sir William Myers until his death, and then under Colonel Sir Edward Blakeny. In 1814 as a Lieutenant he had charge of a detachment of men at Belem, and was with the Army of Occupation in France from 1815 to 1818. He was promoted Captain on 18 October 1821, before going on half-pay on 25 October of that year. He exchanged to the 13th (Somerset) Regiment of Foot on 20 December 1821, and served with his new regiment in the first Anglo-Burmese War in 1824, where he was present at the taking of Cheduba, commanded the landing party and took the Chokey, and succeeded to the command of three companies in storming the stockade at Ava. Promoted Brevet Major on 10 January 1837, he was present as Major of Brigade at the storming of Ghuznee, 23 July 1839, after the Kabul Gate had been blown by explosives under a covering party from the 13th Foot (entitled to Medal). Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 2 August 1842, the following year he succeeded Sir Robert Sale as Commanding Officer of the Regiment on the latter’s appointment as Quartermaster-General to the Queen’s forces in India. He commanded the Regiment in India for just over a year before 13th departed India at Bombay on 20 March 1845, arriving at Gravesend on 28 July. Squire retired from the Service on 3 November 1846, and died at Felpham, Sussex, on 16 June 1855.