A Scarce ‘Double I.G.S.’ and China 1900 Group of 3 to Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Herbert Goldthorpe, 3rd Punjab Cavalry, who later commanded the 1st/4th Battalion (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots at the Second Battle of Gaza during the Great War, and saw further service with the Welsh Horse, comprising: India General Service, 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. F. H. Goldthorpe 3rd. Punjab Cavy.), engraved in a running script; India General Service, 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieutt. F. H. Goldthorpe 3d. Punjab Cavy.), engraved in a running script; China, 1900, single clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn. F. H. Goldthorpe 3d. Pjb Cavy), engraved in a running script, correction to regiment; Group loose, toned, suspension loose to first, generally good very fine (3) Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Herbert Goldthorpe (1870), sometimes written as Goldthorp, was born on 14 August 1870, the son of Francis and Sarah Goldthorpe, of Shipley, West Yorkshire. Educated at the Merchant Taylors School, he joined the Army on 13 May 1887 as a Second Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion, the Welsh Regiment, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 22 June 1889. He was appointed Squadron Officer with the 3rd Punjab Cavalry on 28 June 1890, while also spending some time with the Staff Corps. He first saw service in the Waziristan 1894 Expedition (for which he is also entitled to an I.G.S. and clasp), and continued to serve during the Punjab Frontier Campaign of 1897-98, including the operations on the Samana and in the Kurram Valley during August and September of 1897. He returned from these campaigns with an unlikely companion: THE AFGHAN DOG DAGAN. I give here a photograph of Dagan (named after the place where he was taken), an Afridi or Afghan watch-dog, belonging to Lieutenant F. H. Goldthorpe, of the 3rd Punjaub Cavalry, and acquired by him during the 1894-5 expedition against the Waziris and Frontier Delimitation in the Tochi Valley. The dog is a remarkably fine animal, and is probably the only one of the breed in England; but, unfortunately, he has the characteristics of the Afghan tribes, being both fierce and treacherous towards strangers. (The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality) He served again with the 3rd Punjab Cavalry in China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, and was present during the Relief of Pekin. Promoted to Major on 28 June 1901, he retired on 28 June 1908 but some years later attended the Delhi Durbar of 1911 as Major with the 23rd Cavalry (Frontier Force). After a further period of retirement, he returned to active upon the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 as Major with the 1st/4th Royal Scots. Serving in Egypt, and rising temporarily to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in late 1916, he commanded the 1st/4th Royal Scots during the Second Battle of Gaza as part of the 156th Brigade, 52nd (Lowland) Division. Forming the centre of the attacking position, the 1st/4th Royal Scots attacked at Mansura on 19 April 1917 after a heavy bombardment, and despite making some territorial gains in the face of heavy enemy shellfire they were forced to fall back by the end of the day, having suffered 1 officer and 13 other ranks killed, and 6 officers and 110 other ranks wounded. Reverting to Major, Goldthorpe also saw Great War service with the Welsh Horse, and shown on his M.I.C., which also gives a contact address at 1 The Terrace, Grosvenor Street, St. Helier, Jersey.

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