Colonel Dale Madras Infantry Burma War British Army India General Service Medal
India General Service Medal (1854), 1 clasp BURMA 1885 – 7, period engraved in sloped style: Major H.M.Dale 1st Madras Infy. Comes with copies baptism certificate 1845, Service papers, Madras Regiment pension book, 1911 census, Officers lists and research notes. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Montague Dale was baptised at St. Michael’s Church, Highgate, Middlesex on 14 June 1839, the son of a Gray’s Inn solicitor employed by the Honourable East India Company. Educated at Harrow, he was nominated as a Cadet for the Madras Infantry by Major-General Sir R. J. H. Vivian, K.C.B., following a recommendation by his mother. Though commissioned an Ensign in the 1st Madras Native Infantry on 20 September 1856, he remained in England during the Indian Mutiny. After an appointment with the Indian Staff Corps he transferred to the 41st Madras Native Infantry, becoming Quartermaster on 28 January 1867 and Adjutant on 17 February 1868. He returned to the 1st Native Infantry for the 1885-6 Burma Expedition, in which he served at the rank of Major. He was present at the reduction of Minhla and the capture of Mandalay under Major-General H. N. D. Prendergast (Medal & clasp); sold with copied service papers and transcribed H.E.I.C. examination documents.