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17 August 2021

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№ 465 x

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17 August 2021

Hammer Price:
£1,800

Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Lieut. Chas. Anderson Morshead, 41th [sic]. Regt.) fitted with silver clip and straight bar suspension, traces of lacquer, minor edge bruise, good very fine £1,200-£1,600

Provenance: Goodwin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009.

Charles Anderson Morshead was appointed Ensign in the 41st Foot on 11 July 1837, and promoted to Lieutenant on 28 June 1839. He served in the 41st during the whole of the campaign of 1842 in Afghanistan, and was present in the engagements with the enemy on 28 March and 28 April in the Pisheen Valley; in that of 29 May, near Candahar; 30 August at Goaine; 5 September before Ghuznee; the occupation and destruction of that fortress and of Cabool; the expedition into Kohistan; the storm, capture, and destruction of Istaliff; and in the various minor affairs in and between the Bolan and the Khyber Passes (Medal). Lieutenant Morshead was placed on half-pay in the 5th Foot on 14 March 1851.