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The 'Burma 1885' campaign C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel A. A. Le Mesurier, Commandin...

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The ‘Burma 1885’ campaign C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel A. A. Le Mesurier, Commanding 2nd Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with incorrect silver-gilt ribbon buckle; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captain A. E. Le Mesurier. 1st Btn. 14th Regt.) contemporary engraved naming in the style of Hunt & Roskell; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Coll. A. A. Lemesurier 2d. Bn. L’pool R.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Captain A. E. Le Mesurier. 1st Btn. 14th Regt.) fitted with replacement scroll suspension, mounted for wearing, the Crimea medals with edge bruising and contact pitting, good fine, otherwise good very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- C.B. (Military) London Gazette 26 November 1886. Andrew Alfred Le Mesurier was born in East Woodhay, Berkshire on 19 January 1837. He entered the Army as an Ensign in the 2nd West Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers on 19 January 1855, and subsequently gained a commission as an Ensign in the 14th Foot, becoming Lieutenant in August 1855. He served in the Crimea with the 14th Foot from 13 August 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal with Clasp, and Turkish Medal). Promoted to Captain in October 1858, he became Major in August 1877, and brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1880. He took over command of the 2nd Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 March 1882, and commanded the battalion in the Burma Campaign of 1885. Upon the surrender of King Thibaw at Mandalay in November 1885, Colonel Le Mesurier, with two companies of the Liverpool regiment were charged with escort duties on board the steamer Thooreah which carried the Royal prisoners to Rangoon where, upon arrival, Colonel Le Mesurier was furnished with a receipt for ‘the person of the Prisoner King Theebaw of Mandalay Upper Burmah on the 15th of December 1885 from which date Col. Le Mesurier ceases to be responsible for the above mentioned Prisoner’s safe custody.’ In addition to the medal and clasp, Colonel Le Mesurier was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Companion of the Order of the Bath in recognition of these services. He retired on 20 June 1888 and took up residence at St Saviour, Jersey on the Channel Islands, where he died on 27 April 1894. Sold with copied research including a copy of the receipt given for ‘King Theebaw’.
The ‘Burma 1885’ campaign C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel A. A. Le Mesurier, Commanding 2nd Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with incorrect silver-gilt ribbon buckle; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captain A. E. Le Mesurier. 1st Btn. 14th Regt.) contemporary engraved naming in the style of Hunt & Roskell; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Coll. A. A. Lemesurier 2d. Bn. L’pool R.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Captain A. E. Le Mesurier. 1st Btn. 14th Regt.) fitted with replacement scroll suspension, mounted for wearing, the Crimea medals with edge bruising and contact pitting, good fine, otherwise good very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- C.B. (Military) London Gazette 26 November 1886. Andrew Alfred Le Mesurier was born in East Woodhay, Berkshire on 19 January 1837. He entered the Army as an Ensign in the 2nd West Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers on 19 January 1855, and subsequently gained a commission as an Ensign in the 14th Foot, becoming Lieutenant in August 1855. He served in the Crimea with the 14th Foot from 13 August 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal with Clasp, and Turkish Medal). Promoted to Captain in October 1858, he became Major in August 1877, and brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1880. He took over command of the 2nd Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 March 1882, and commanded the battalion in the Burma Campaign of 1885. Upon the surrender of King Thibaw at Mandalay in November 1885, Colonel Le Mesurier, with two companies of the Liverpool regiment were charged with escort duties on board the steamer Thooreah which carried the Royal prisoners to Rangoon where, upon arrival, Colonel Le Mesurier was furnished with a receipt for ‘the person of the Prisoner King Theebaw of Mandalay Upper Burmah on the 15th of December 1885 from which date Col. Le Mesurier ceases to be responsible for the above mentioned Prisoner’s safe custody.’ In addition to the medal and clasp, Colonel Le Mesurier was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Companion of the Order of the Bath in recognition of these services. He retired on 20 June 1888 and took up residence at St Saviour, Jersey on the Channel Islands, where he died on 27 April 1894. Sold with copied research including a copy of the receipt given for ‘King Theebaw’.

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