THE CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO COLONEL RICHARD RIDGEWAY, 44TH ( SYLHET ) REGIMENT, BENGAL NATIVE INFANTRY, REMAINED UNSOLD AT A BALDWIN AUCTION. |
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28 September 2016 |
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Medal entitlement of Colonel Richard Ridgeway, 44th ( Sylhet ) Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry
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The two campaign medals awarded to Colonel Richard Ridgeway VC, 44th ( Sylhet ) Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, remained unsold at auction by Baldwin's of London on the 28th September 2016. ( The Victoria Cross does not accompany the campaign medals and its whereabouts is not known ). The sale estimate was £20,000.
For the award of the Victoria Cross [ London Gazette, 11 May 1880 ], Konomo, Eastern India, 22 November 1879, Captain Richard Kirby Ridgeway, 44th ( Sylhet ) Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry.
For conspicuous gallantry throughout the attack on Konoma, on the 22nd November 1879, more especially in the final assault, when, under a heavy fire from the enemy, he rushed up to a barricade and attempted to tear down the planking surrounding it, to enable him to effect an entrance, in which act he received a very severe rifle shot wound in the left shoulder.
Owing to his wounds this prevented Richard Ridgeway from attending an investiture and therefore his Victoria Cross was posted to him in Ireland by the War Office on the 2nd June 1880.
Richard Ridgeway died at his home in Harrogate and was cremated in the Lawnswood Crematorium, Leeds, West Yorkshire. |
Iain Stewart, 28 September 2016