Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Honorary Captain T. Gough, Rifle Brigade

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (2nd Bn. Rifle Bde.), contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Paymr., 3rd Bn. Rifle Bde.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, the first with erased rank, light contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise generally good very fine (3) £500-600

Thomas Gough was appointed Quarter-Master in the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade in August 1846, and served in the ‘Eastern campaign of 1854 upto 4 July 1855 (Medal and clasps and Turkish Medal)’ (Hart’s refers). Then September 1855, he became the Battalion’s Paymaster, and in that capacity witnessed further action in the Indian Mutiny 1857-58, ‘including the action at Cawnpore, siege and capture of Lucknow and battle of Nawabgunge (Medal and clasp)’ (Hart’s refers). Finally, in September 1860, he was appointed an Honorary Captain, in which rank he would appear to have retired a few years later.