Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Chapln. to the Forces Revd. R. C. Browne, 1873-4) edge bruising and cleaned, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Series of Medals for the Ashantee Campaign (1873-74).

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The Rev. Ralph C. Brown, a Roman Catholic priest, who was born in February 1830, was appointed to the Army’s Chaplains’ Department in August 1862. A Chaplain 3rd Class at the time of his participation in the Ashantee War 1873-74, he eventually attained the equivalent rank of Colonel before being placed on the Retired List in 1894.