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2310

SOUTH AFRICA 1853 MEDAL NAMED TO: J. TAILBY. 12th. LANCERS.

Correctly named.

CRIMEA MEDAL NAMED TO: J. TAILBY. 12th. LANCERS.

Clasp; SEBASTOPOL.

Officially Impressed.

Turkish medal unnamed as issued.

Condition: GVF.

Comes with Research.

$1,975.00

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3606

Zulus attacking the 90th Regiment at the Battle of Ulundi.

SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL NAMED TO: 871. SERGt. J. HOWTON. 90th. FOOT.

Clasp: 1877-8-79.

(90th Perthshire Light Infantry)

LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL NAMED TO: 871. SERGt. J. HOWTON. 90th. FOOT.

Both medals are correctly named.

Comes with boxes of issue for medal and LSGC medal. (Scarce to have the original boxes of issue for both medals.)

Condition: GVF.

Looks like original ribbons.

Lieutenant Colonel Redver Buller winning the Victoria Cross at Hlobane rescuing a fellow officer.

British Regiments:
Royal Artillery, 11th Battery, 7th Brigade.
1st Battalion of the 13th Light Infantry: later the Somerset Light Infantry and now the Light Infantry.
the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry: later 2nd Battalion the Scottish Rifles; disbanded in 1966.
Mounted Infantry
Frontier Light Horse under Lieutenant Colonel Buller
Boer Commando
Native Contingent of Swazis

The newly arrived Zulu Army, commanded by Chief Mnyamana Buthelezei, moved on towards Khambula in battle formation; the mass of warriors forming the “chest” with other columns as the left and right “horns”, ready to envelope the British, encamped ready for battle the next day.

As soon as the Zulu approach was reported the troops assembled at their positions, 1,200 men of the 1st/13th Light Infantry and the 90th Regiment with 800 other irregular troops. Ammunition reserves were established along the rear of the lines.

Wood’s artillery comprised 4 seven pounder guns, 2 mule borne guns and several rocket troughs. The mule guns took post in the redoubt while the seven pounders stood in the open ground between the two main fortifications.

The Zulu formation paused for a time while final arrangements for the attack were made. It may be that the Zulu generals wished to avoid a direct assault on the British camp; Cetshwayo’s instructions being not to repeat the mistake of Rorke’s Drift but to threaten the Natal border and try to lure Wood’s force into the open. However the Zulu warriors were in no mood for caution. The Zulu Army began to move towards the British with increasing speed, the horns spreading out to the left and right flanks, the chest heading straight for the camp. The battle began at around 1.30pm.

The left horn disappeared from view as it moved into the valley to the South, where it was held up by marshy ground. The right horn circled round to the North and came in towards the camp. Wood dispatched Buller with his mounted men to provoke the right horn into making a premature attack before the other sections of the Zulu Army were in place. Buller’s move had the effect intended, the mass of the right horn rushing towards the British fortifications.

Buller’s troops rode back into the camp, several men having considerable difficulty getting away from the fast moving mass of Zulu warriors.

Once the mounted men were clear the troops along the north face, the 90th Light Infantry, opened fire with the guns positioned in the open between the wagon laager and the redoubt. The storm of fire destroyed the right horn as a threat to the camp, the Zulu survivors rushing back to cover some 600 yards back and remaining there. Wood was free to deploy a significant number of the troops and guns from the north side against the chest and left horn as they came up.

Hurried by the sound of firing, the left horn climbed the south face of the hill, out of sight of the British troops until they reached the crest, where they met a heavy fire from the 13th Regiment. The Zulus on the right of the advance were able to mount an attack on the cattle laager, forcing Wood to withdraw its garrison and leave the laager to the Zulus.

Wood ordered Major Hackett of the 90th to take 2 companies to the edge of the hill and fire down into the Zulus assembling in the valley below. This enterprise had to be abandoned in the face of heavy Zulu fire, using Martini Henry rifles captured at Isandlwana, from the cattle laager and a hill to the West of the camp, although the Zulu left horn was temporarily halted. Hackett was blinded and one of his subalterns mortally injured.

The left horn and the chest attempted attacks on the camp at various points around the perimeter from the south to the north-east, all driven back by the heavy fire from the two infantry regiments and the guns of the Royal Artillery: the 2 mule guns in the redoubt and the 4 seven pounders deployed in the open ground between the wagon laager and the redoubt.

At 5.30pm the Zulus began to fall back. Wood ordered companies of infantry forward to fire into the withdrawing Zulu regiments.

SOLD

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2313

A SCARCE COMBINATION  //

CRIMEA WAR MEDAL NAMED TO: J. HERRING. 1st. BATn. RIFLE. BRGDe.

Clasps: ALMA, BALAKLAVA, INKERMANN & SEBASTOPOL.

SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL1855 named to: JAMES. HERRING. 1st. RIFLE. Bde.

Condition: VF

SOLD

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2239

SCARCE GROPING //

EGYPT 1882 medal named to: 2966. SERGt. J.C. PETTIFER. 3/K.R.R.C.

Clasps: TEL-EL-KIBIR, SUAKIN 1884 & TAMAAI.

Condition: VF (with minor rubbing to the naming of the Regt due to the star).

KHEDIVES START 1882.

ZULU SOUTH AFRICA medal named to: 2966. SERGt. J.C. PETTIFER. 3/60th FOOT.

Clasp: 1879.

Condition: VF.

The 60th received 7 casualties during the Zulu campaign and 50 during the Egypt campaign. Both regiments were heavily engaged.

Comes with research.

$2,275.00

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3608

ZULU MEDAL NAMED TO: 1016. PTE. E. HUDSON. 1st. DRAGOON. GUARDS.

Clasp: 1879.

LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL NAMED TO: 1016. PTE. E. HUDSON. 1st. DRAGOON GUARDS.

COMES WITH A COPY OF THE ROLL AND SERVICE PAPERS..

$1,950.00