Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Moore, Indian Medical Service, attached Central India Horse, who was killed in a shooting accident at Quetta on 23 July 1914

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, Samana 1897 (Surgeon Captain C. M. Moore, 2nd C.I. Horse) officially engraved naming in capitals; China 1900, no clasp (Captn. C. M. Moore, I.M.S.) mounted court-style for display, minor contact marks, good very fine (2) £700-£900

Spink Medal Circular, October 1997.

Charles Malcolm Moore was born in February 1864, and was appointed a Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service in March 1889. Sometime thereafter attached to the 2nd Central India Horse, he witnessed active service with the Tirah Field Force on the Punjab Frontier, and in the Samana operations 1897-98, including service in the Kurram Valley, in the reconnaissance of the Khamana defile, and in further operations against the Khani Khel Chamkanis (Medal and three clasps). He was also present in operations during the Boxer rebellion in 1900 (Medal). Advanced to Major in March 1901, and to Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1913, he was killed in a shooting accident at Quetta on 23 July 1914.