Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Three: Private D. Makinson, 13th Regiment

Ghuznee 1839 (Pt., XIII P.A.L.I.); Defence of Jellalabad 1842, Mural Crown (Pt., XIII P.A.L.I.); Cabul 1842 (Pt., XIII P.A.L.I.), all fitted with contemporary loop and straight-bar suspension, and with regimentally impressed naming, contact marks and edge bruising, generally good fine (3) £800-1000

Daniel Makinson was born in Bolton, Lancashire and enlisted in the 13th Regiment at Dublin in September 1823, aged 20 years. Advanced to Corporal in August 1830 and to Sergeant in May 1833, he lost his stripes on being found guilty of drunkenness and absence from his garrison at Calcutta in October 1835. Extensive active service followed in Afghanistan and India between 1839-42, Makinson being present at the storming of Ghuznee in July 1839 and in the operations in Kohistan in the following year. Then in 1841 he was present at ‘several engagements in four of the Passes from Cabul to Jellalabad and in the defence of the latter fortress and in the general action at Jellalabad on 7 April 1842’, in addition to ‘Gunduluck on 8 September 1842; Tazeen on 13 September and the recapture of Cabul on 15 September’. He had, meanwhile, temporarily regained his Corporal’s stripes in January 1840, but was once again reduced to Private in the following year. Makinson returned to the U.K. in July 1845 and was discharged as a result of being unfit for further service in August 1846, aged 43 years.