THE VICTORIA CROSS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO COLOUR SERGEANT STEPHEN GARVIN, 60TH RIFLES, HAVE BEEN SOLD BY THE LONDON AUCTION HOUSE DIX NOONAN WEBB.
19 September 2014


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Medal entitlement of Colour Sergeant Stephen Garvin,
1st Bn, 60th Rifles ( King's Royal Rifle Corps )

  • Victoria Cross
  • Distinguished Conduct Medal ( DCM )
  • Punjab Medal ( 1848-49 )
    • 2 clasps:
    • "Mooltan" - "Goojerat"
  • Indian General Service Medal ( 1854-1895 )
    • 1 clasp:
    • "North West Frontier"
  • Indian Mutiny Medal ( 1857-58 )
    • 1 clasp:
    • "Delhi"
  • Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal

The Victoria Cross and campaign medals awarded to Colour Sergeant Stephen Garvin, 60th Rifles ( King's Royal Rifle Corps ) have been sold at auction in London by Dix Noonan Webb on Friday the 19th September 2014. The VC group realised a sale hammer price of £190,000. ( The estimated sale price was between £120,000 and £140,000 ). The Stephen Garvin VC group was acquired by the Michael Ashcroft Trust the holding institution for the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection. The group will go on display in the Imperial War Museum's Lord Ashcroft Gallery.


For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 20 January 1860 ], Siege of Delhi, Indian Mutiny, 23 June 1857, Colour Sergeant Stephen Garvin, 1st Bn, 60th Rifles.

For daring and gallant conduct before Delhi on the 23rd June 1857, in volunteering to lead a small party of men, under a heavy fire, to the “Sammy House” for the purpose of dislodging a number of the Enemy in position there, who kept up a destructive fire on the advanced battery of heavy guns, in which, after a sharp contest he succeeded. Also recommended for gallant conduct throughout the operations before Delhi.

Stephen Garvin was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on the 9th November 1860.


Stephen Garvin died on the 23rd November 1874 in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, and was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church.

Acquisition

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Iain Stewart, 26 September 2014