THE VICTORIA CROSS AWARDED TO LIEUTENANT ARTHUR MOORE, 3RD BOMBAY LIGHT CAVALARY, HAS BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION BY THE LONDON AUCTIONEERS DIX NOONAN WEBB. |
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18 September 2004 |
The Victoria Cross and other orders and campaign medals awarded to Major General Arthur Moore were sold at auction on the 17th September 2004 by the London autioneers Dix Noonan Webb for the sum of £150,000. The group was purchased by a private buyer. The VC group was part of the Brian Ritchie Collection of HEIC and British India Medals.
For the award of the Victoria Cross [ London Gazette, 3 August 1860 ], Battle of Khoosh ab, Persia, 8 February 1857, Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Moore and Lieutenant John Grant Malcolmson, 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry.
"On the occasion of an attack on the enemy led by Lieutenant-Colonel Forbes, CB, Lieutenant Moore the Adjutant of the regiment, was perhaps the first of all by a horse's length. His horse lept into the Persian square and instantly fell dead, crashing down his rider and breaking his sword as he fell amid the broken ranks of the enemy. Lieutenant Moore speedily extricated himself and attempted with his broken sword to force his way through the press; but he would assuredly have lost his life had not the gallant young Lieutenant Malcolmson, observing his peril, fought his way to his dismounted comrade through a crowd of enemies, to his rescue, and giving him his stirrup, safely carried him through everything out of the throng.
Arthur Moore was invested with his Victoria Cross by GOC Bombay, Lieutenant General Sir W. Mansfield, in India, on the 18th October 1861. John Malcolmson was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle, on the 9th November 1860.
General Moore, VC, CB, died of heart failure whilst suffering from influenza at his residence in Dublin on 25 April 1913 and was buried in the Mount Jerome Cemetery. |
Iain Stewart, 17 September 2004