Single Campaign Medals

In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteBaltic 1854-55 (Lieut. Enbule D. Thelwall. R.M.A. “Leopard”.) contemporary engraved naming, toned, good very fine £260-£300 --- Enbule Daysh Thelwall was born in Denbighshire on 28 July 1828, son of Commander Bevis Thelwall, R.N., and Mary Elizabeth. He was a pupil at the Royal Naval School and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Marine Artillery on 26 June 1848, and promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 28 February 1851. Appointed to Termagent on 8 September 1852, and to Leopard on 6 January 1853. As 1st Lieutenant in Leopard, Thelwall served in the whole of the operations in the Black Sea from December 1854 until the termination of the war. Lieutenant Thelwall was at the destruction of 14 vessels and a vast quantity of stores at Brahested on the 30th May 1854; at the destruction of 23 vessels, storehouses, &c. at Uleaborg on the 1st and 2nd June; at the operations against Bomarsund, and in action with the forts on the 15th of August (Medal). In 1855 he was in action with the outer forts on the 19th of June, engaged shelling the batteries in Soujak Bay, and expelling the Russian garrison 12th March, and in action with the batteries at Soujak Kalé 13th March; assisted at the landing of the troops at Kinbourn, and at the bombardment of that fort (Medal and Clasp, and 5th Class of the Medjidie). He was promoted to Captain on 7 May 1859, and saw further service at sea aboard H.M.S. Nile in North America, Bermuda and the West Indies, and in H.M.S. Royal Alfred, also on the North American station. He was appointed Instructor of Artillery on 30 March 1870, and brevet of Major on 3 July 1872. He retired at his own request on 31 March 1875, being appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel the following month. He died at Berkhamsted on 23 September 1914, and is buried in St Mary’s churchyard at Northchurch.