Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

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

№ 97

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£480

Abyssinia 1867 (Captn. J. M. Greig, Royal Engrs.) good very fine £400-450

Irwin Montgomery Greig was born on 24 June 1834 and joined the Bombay Engineers as Second Lieutenant on 9 December 1852. He served with the Field Force from Aden against the Arabs in 1858, and was present at the storming of the village and Fort of Sheik Othman. He served as a Field Engineer with the Abyssinian Expeditionary Force in 1868 in charge of the Engineer Park, having organized the Park at Bombay and despatched it to Zoulla (mentioned in despatches, Medal). He became Colonel in December 1878, retired as Major-General in November 1886, and died in London on 4 July 1887.