Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 3rd June 2025
Lot 14
A Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 to Lieutenant Charles Lowrie, 69th Regiment of Foot, who
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Description
A Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 to Lieutenant Charles Lowrie, 69th Regiment of Foot, who was severely wounded in Java 1811 and was also entitled to the Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840 with the very rare clasp Otter 18 September 1810, clasp: Java (CHAS LOWRIE, LIEUT 69TH FOOT), good very fine or better.
(36.2 mm)
Charles Lowrie was commissioned into the 69th Foot on the 17th of December 1802, and was promoted Lieutenant on the 14th of July 1804, Captain on the 11th of June 1812, and Major on the 29th August 1826. He served in Grenadier Company of the 69th at the capture of Java in 1811 and was severely wounded (shot through the body) during the storming of Fort Cornelis on the 26th of August 1811.
Lowrie had also been present on HMS Otter on the 18th of September 1810 when, in the company of Staunch and Boadicea, it captured the French 40-gun frigate Venus, recaptured the 38-gun HMS Ceylon and rescued Major General Abercromby and his staff. He was thereby entitled to the NGS with the very rare clasp Otter 18 September 1810 but appears not to have claimed it. Of the 75 officers and soldiers of the 69th present at the action only Private Benjamin Pratt is confirmed as having claimed the medal.
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