Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (Major C. H. H. Gough. Ind. S.C.) toned, extremely fine £260-£300

Charles Hugh Henry Gough was born at Murree, Punjab, India, son of Sir Hugh Henry Gough, V.C. on 28 June 1866. His father and his uncle, Major Charles John Stanley Gough, had both won the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Indian Mutiny and, furthermore, his uncle’s own son was also destined to win the Victoria Cross in Somaliland in April 1903. Hugh Henry Gough was first commissioned as an Ensign in the Royal Irish Fusiliers on 29 August 1885, and transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in October 1886 and was appointed Lieutenant in the 12th Bengal Cavalry on 1 January 1887.

Captain Gough served in the South African war on the staff as Commandant at Headquarters, graded as a Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900. In the Transvaal in May and June 1900. In the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July and August 1900 (despatches London Gazette 16 April 1901; brevet of Major; Queen’s medal with 4 clasps). He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on 29 August 1911, and was Superintendent of the Army Remount Department in India. He died in England on 29 August 1913.