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№ 210 x

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4 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£3,000

Pair: Major E. M. Poynton, 13th Foot

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (Lieut. E. M. Poynton, 1/13” Foot.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Captain E. M. Poynton 2nd Bn. Som. L.I.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £1,500-£2,000

Edward Morris Poynton was born at Burrington, Warwickshire on 24 June 1855, and was commissioned into the 13th Foot direct from the R.M.C. Sandhurst on 12 November 1873.

He subsequently served in South Africa from February 1878 to September 1879, in which period he was initially employed against the Sekukini on the Transvaal border and at the storming of Tolyana’s Stadt on 27 October 1878. In the Zulu campaign of 1879 he was present in the engagement at Zunguin Nek, 24 January, action of Kambula, 29 March, and at the battle of Ulundi, 4 July. His regiment particularly distinguished itself at Kambula when it checked the enemy in the right rear of the British laager - two of its officers were severely wounded, six other ranks killed and another 19 ‘more or less severely wounded’. Further regimental casualties were sustained at Ulundi, when the 13th occupied the right of the British square.

Advanced to Captain in May 1883, Poynton was embarked for the East Indies in the same year, where he was subsequently employed in the Burma operations of 1885-87. Returning home again in January of the latter year, he was advanced to Major in December 1891 and was placed on the Retired List in July 1899, having then served as Adjutant of the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, for several years.

Sold with copied record of service and two copied photographs of the recipient in uniform with medals.