Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. McClintock, Commissariat Department

South Africa 1834-53 (D. A. Comy. Genl. T. E. McClintock.) contemporarily re-engraved in upright capitals; Crimea 1854-56, no clasp, unnamed as issued, with contemporary top silver riband buckle, this lacking pin; contact marks and edge bruising, therefore very fine (2) £200-£240

Theodore Ernest McClintock was born in 1829 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland, the son of Henry and Elizabeth McClintock and the brother of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock, one of the greatest arctic explorers of the Victorian age. He was first commissioned and entered the Commissariat Department in January 1846, later transferring as a commissioned officer into the Army Pay Department on its formation and serving on a number of military stations for over thirty years both at home and abroad. He was Deputy Assistant Commissary General with seniority from December 1849 and his first entry in Hart’s Army List came in 1851 giving his station as Cape of Good Hope and stating that he was in commissariat charge of a strong force which marched from Natal to the Orange River Sovereignty to the assistance of the troops at Bloemfontein against Basuto chief Moshesh, from August 1851 to July 1852. He served in South Australia in 1853 and also in the Crimea in the spring of 1857 with the Turkish Contingent at Kirtch.

His Crimea Medal is confirmed on medal roll WO 100/34, page 274, with a note against his name stating ‘medal sent to H & R for reissue 31/10 – 56’.

McClintock was advanced Assistant Commissary General with seniority in October 1860 and served in China in 1862. He saw further service at the Cape of Good Hope from 1864 to 1868 before returning England. He was appointed Pay Master, ranking with Major in 1874 and was stationed in Manchester in 1874, Dover in 1876, Dublin in 1878 and finally Gibraltar in 1880 where he was District Pay Master (Hon Major) in the Army Pay Department. His final entry in Hart’s in 1882 shows him as Staff Pay Master with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in 1900.

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