Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Jowaki 1877-8 (2027 Gunner Fredk. Humberstone. I/C R.H.A.) very fine £140-£180

Frederick Humberstone was born in Bethnal Green, London, in 1837. He attested for the Royal Artillery around 1856 and took part in the Expedition of November 1877, designed to penetrate the Jowaki hills and carry out punitive measures against the Jowaki tribe. Humberstone served in one of two columns, the first starting from Peshawar and the second from Kohat, each having three guns from I/C., Royal Horse Artillery. Amidst continual rains and flooding, conditions proved so harsh that tents had to be sent up from Fort Mackeson, but eventually, following a series of skirmishes between small detachments, the Jowakis relented and came to terms with the Indian authorities.