Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. F. Bloomfield, 5th Madras Native Infantry and Golconda Local Corps

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Ensign A. F. Bloomfirld. 5th Madras N.I.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Capt. A. F. Bloomfield, Golconda Local Corps.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £700-£900

Alleyne Fitzherbert Fenton Bloomfield was born on 18 June 1832, and was appointed Ensign in the Indian Army on 25 May 1850; Ensign, 5th Madras N.I., 11 June 1851; Lieutenant, Indian Staff Corps, 23 November 1856; Captain, 25 May 1862; Major, 29 May 1870; Lieutenant-Colonel, 25 May 1876; retired 26 May 1878.

Ensign Bloomfield arrived in India on 9 September 1850, and served during the Second Burma War, accompanied the Martaban Column to Tanghoo; present in the attack and capture of Gongah and other minor affairs (Medal). Sent on Special Service in command of a detachment of Golcondah Sebundies to suppress the disturbance in the Hill Tracts of the Godavery District in 1857-58 (Medal). Received the thanks of the Madras Government. Commanded a detachment of the Golcondah Sebundies in 1858. Received the thanks of the Madras Government and approbation of His Excellency the Commander in Chief. Commanded the Civil Force sent to quell the disturbances in the Rumpah Country in the Godavery District in 1862, slightly wounded. Received the thanks of the Madras Government for the third time.

During his service he held the appointments of Adjutant Golcondah Sebundies 1855; Commanded Rajahmundry Sebundies 1858; Acting Military Medber Sanitary Commission, December 1864; Acting Cantonment Magistrate, Trichinopoly, April 1865; Superintendent Rajahmundry Central Jail, January 1866; Acting Superintendent of Family Payments, Madras, February 1867; Acting Police Magistrate, Madras, February 1868; Superintendent Salem Jail, October 1868.

Lieutenant-Colonel Bloomfield died on 21 April 1915. Sold with copied Cadet papers, Record of Service, medal roll entries, and a modern reprint of A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras by Henry Morris, first published London, 1878, which contains a short account of the operations of the Golconda Sebundies under Bloomfield.