Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 978

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£1,100

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Pocklington, 18th Royal Irish Regiment, later appointed to Her Majesty’s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms

Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, silver; Coronation 1902, silver; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Ensn., 18th Royal Irish Regt.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut., 18th R. Irish Rgt.), engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, pierced with ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £550-650

George Henry Pocklington was born on 6 September 1833 at Stelling, Essex. He was commissioned an Ensign in the 18th Regiment in December 1851 and saw service in Burma. Later, in the Crimean War, he served three months in the trenches before Sebastopol and took part in the attacks of 18 June and 8 September. He was promoted Lieutenant in June 1854 and Captain in September 1857. Pocklington was stationed in India, November 1857 - April 1863 but did not qualify for the Indian Mutiny medal as his regiment was not engaged. Promoted Major in December 1866, he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase in July 1871. On 13 July 1877 he was appointed to Her Majesty’s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; nominated by the Earl of Coventry (London Gazette 7 August 1877), he retained this post until 1907. In 1880 Pocklington became Lord of Chelsworth Manor, a J.P., D.L. and High Sheriff. He died in Winchfield, Hampshire on 25 January 1908. Sold with a folder of copied research.