AN EXTREMELY FINE WEST AFRICA CAMPAIGNS GROUP TO A MAJOR, 3RD ESSEX REGIMENT (MILITIA), WHO AFTER TAKING PART IN THE ASHANTI CAMPAIGN OF 1896 AND THE LAGOS HINTERLAND AND IN BIRGU CAMPAIGNS OF 1897-8, WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED BY “A POISONED ARROW IN CHEST WHILE MOST GALLANTLY LEADING THE FRONT FACE OF THE SQUARE” AGAINST THE FRA FRAS IN 1899. FURTHER STAKING PART IN THE ASHANTI WAR OF 1900, HE WAS AGAIN WOUNDED IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF OBASSA, 30 SEPTEMBER 1900. THIS THE LAST MAJOR ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN ASHANTI AND BRITISH IN THEIR LONG HISTORY OF CONFLICT. ADDITIONALLY MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES FOR BOTH LATTER CAMPAIGNS

ASHANTI STAR 1896, UNNAMED AS ISSUED; EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 CLASP, 1897-98 ‘CAPT. & INSPTR. T. P. GREEN, LAGOS HAUSA FORCE’; ASHANTI 1900, NO CLASP, HIGH RELIEF BUST ‘CAPTAIN T. A. PAMPLIN GREEN. A.F.F.’ IMPRESSED NAMING.

Thomas Alfred Pamplin-Green was born ‘at sea’ in 1862 and entered the Army as 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment (Militia) on 2 April 1887. Promoted Lieutenant, 10 November 1888 and Captain, 23 May 1892, he was seconded to the Gold Coast Constabulary as Assistant Inspector on 7 September 1895 (LG 17 Sept 1895). He served in the Ashanti Expedition 1895-96, in the operations against King Prempah, from December 1895 to January 1896 (Ashanti Star)……

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Condition, light contact marks, otherwise GVF. Sold with a file of copy research, including medal rolls, gazettes etc. Also digital copies of ‘The Ashanti Campaign 1900’, ‘Correspondence Relating to the Ashanti War, 1900’ and other research can be emailed to buyer.

A fine and most interesting group to an officer who saw a great deal of action in West Africa. Plenty of further research potential.