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165 165 Pair: Major C.H. Stuart-French, 5th Dragoon Guards, Late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Capt. C.H. Stuart. 5/Drgn. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Maj. C.H. Stuart. 5/Dgn. Gds.), light contact marks, good very fine, together with the recipient’s related miniature awards (2) £300-400
164 Pair: Lieutenant H. Stuart, Essex Regiment Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, The Nile 188485 (Lieut: H. Stuart, 2/Essex. R.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (2) £280-320 Lieutenant Hamilton Stuart, born March 1860, the eldest son of Major-General William James Stuart and Eleanor French; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Tyrone Fusiliers (Militia), December 1879; promoted Lieutenant, March 1881; transferred as Lieutenant, Essex Regiment, July 1882; served with the 2nd Battalion during the Egyptian Campaign, 1884-85.
Major Claude Houston Stuart-French, born March 1867, the third son of Major-General William James Stuart and Eleanor French; educated at Sherborne School, the King’s School, Rochester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, February 1887; promoted Lieutenant, January 1889; appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Governor and Commander in Chief of Western Australia, February 1891; transferred as Captain, 5th Dragoon Guards, October 1896; served during the Second Boer War, and took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including operations of the 5th-7th February 1900 and the action at Vaal Krantz; the operations on Tugela Heights and action at Pieter’s Hill; operations in the Transvaal, 1900; in Natal, 1900; in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, 1900; and in the Orange River Colony, 1900; twice Mentioned in Despatches, and promoted Brevet Major, 29.11.1900; changed his name by Royal Licence to StuartFrench in 1911 in order to inherit from his elder brother Thomas the estate of their uncle Thomas French; served during the Great War with the 5th Dragoon Guards as Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General to General Burn Murdock; died of heart failure, 23.12.1916, and is buried in Bishop’s Stortford Old Cemetery, Hertfordshire
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