Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Chrystler’s Farm (H. R. Gore, Capt. 89th Foot) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare £5000-6000

Henry Ross Gore was first commissioned on 13 November 1800, becoming Lieutenant in March 1803, and Captain in December 1806.

He was a survivor of the wreck of the transport Isabella in 1805, when he was made a prisoner of the Dutch. He served with the 89th Regiment in the American war of 1812-14, including the actions at Chrystler’s Farm, 11 November 1803, and Niagara, 25 July 1814, where he was taken prisoner and detained until the end of the war. He served also throughout the Burmese war, commanded a detachment under Major Sale in defence of the lines of Rangoon, and commanded his regiment five times in action during the campaign (Medals for Chrystler’s Farm and Ava).

Gore was promoted to Major in August 1819, and to Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1837. He was made a Companion of the Bath on the occasion of the Coronation of William IV, 26 September 1831.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gore subsequently held the appointment as Barrack Master at Fethard, Cashel and Tipperary, where he died in April 1853.