Pair 1849 Punjab Medal 2 Clasps Goojerat, Mooltan Ensign T.H.Blair 19th Regt N.I..

1858 .Indian Mutiny medal Central India clasp to: Lieut T.H.Blair 19th Bombay N.I..

Lieutenant Thomas Hawkes Blair was born at Dumfriesin November 1829 and was appointed an Ensign in the 19th Bombay N.I in February 1847 Quickly seeing action in the Punjab Campaign, when he was present at the Battle of Goojerat and at the siege and surrender of Mooltan, he was advanced to Lieutenant in November 1853 Blair was employed as a Staff Officer in the Satpoora Field Force during the Indian Mutiny, and saw action against the Bheels and Dhar rebels in the Akraine country and Satpoora Hills, being severely wounded in the action at Durbar Bowrie on 11.4.1858, he died at Mhons on 15.5. 1862.

A 1914 Great War 'Western Front' C.B. Group of Seven to Brigadier-General H.G. Sandilands, Royal Artillery, Commanded 34th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 1914-17

a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in Garrard & Co, London case of issue.

b) India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Captn. H.G. Sandilands 50th Fd. By. R.A.), small edge bruise.

c) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (Major. H.G. Sandilands. R.F.A.), contact marks to obverse.

d) 1914 Star, with Bar (Lt: Col: H.G. Sandilands. R.F.A.)

e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Brig. Gen. H.G. Sandilands.)

f) Coronation 1911, clasp carriages adapted for court mounted wear, very fine or better (7)

C.B. London Gazette 18.2.1915 Lieutenant-Colonel H.G. Sandilands (34th Brigade).

Brigadier-General Henry George Sandilands, C.B., born 1864; Lieutenant Royal Artillery, 1884; Captain 1893; Acting Adjutant, Peshawar District, 23.8.1897-30.9.1897; Major 1900; served as Adjutant 2nd Brigade Division Royal Field Artillery in South Africa (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 8.2.1901); Lieutenant-Colonel 1910; Colonel 1913; Officer Commanding 34th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 1914-17, and served on the Western Front from, 17.8.1914; Brigadier-General Staff, 3rd Division 25.2.1915-18.2.1916; 54th Division 3.11.1916; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, November 1916-December 1917 (C.B.; M.I.D. London Gazette 19.10.1914; 17.2.1915; 1.1.1916 and 12.1.1918); retired Brigadier-General 1919.

The Crimea War pair awarded to Honorary Major F. Fernandez, Army Hospital Corps, who served as an Apothecary with charge of the Armys Medical Stores at Balaklava - and found Florence Nightingale very, very difficult to work with (accompanying letter from his grand-daughter refers) .

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Mr. F. Fernandez, Apothecary to the Forces), contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, Hunt and Roskill issue (Mr. F. Fernandez, Apothecary to the Forces), contemporary engraved naming .

Sold with a fine pair of portrait miniatures, one depicting the recipient in scarlet tunic and wearing his British Crimea medal, and the other his wife, oils on ivory, approximately 4in. by 5 in and mounted together in a folding embroidered travel case of Chinese manufacture, circa 1860;together with a large dressing bowl approximately 16 .diameter by 4 high, reputedly as used by Florence Nightingale in the Crimea; and an original and informative letter from his grand-daughter, dated 14th December 1970.

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Other items enclosed with the collection:

Airmail letter from Wallis & Wallis, dated 29th July 1970 with conformation of the purchase of Lot No 282 A from Sale 168 of the FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ collection.

Letter and notes from Jean Harding 22 Fernwood Avenue, Streatham, S.W.16 Sent to Donald Penhall, Canada, from Mrs E. Harding whose Grandfather was FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ.

Letter from Major General A. MacLennan, O.B.E. (Retd) R.A.M.C Historical Museum. Aldershot dated 3rd November 1970. With information concerning his career.

Various notes concerning promotions, Commission of Enquiry, see http://www.crimeantexts.org.uk/sources/reports/mntev028.html etc the collection had been on display in Canada photograph enclosed, and was at one time part of the Ron Penhall collection.

Born in Zeres, Spain, September 1828. His father was a prominent sherry exporter and sent Francisco,at the age of 11, to England for schooling, initially finding employment at Squires of Bond Street, the Queens Apothecary.In September 1854, however ,he was appointed a Dispenser of Medicine to the British Army, in which capacity he served in the Crimea until February 1855, when he was appointed Apothecary, and where he had charge of the medical stores at Balaklava.

Fernandez was next posted to Canada, but returned to active service in 1857-60 when he was employed as an Apothecary in the Second China War. Latterly appointed a Captain of Orderlies in the Army Hospital Corps in June 1873, he served in that capacity for several years at Portsmouth, prior to his retirement in September 1886 as an Hon.Major. He died at Folkestone in November 1911.