New Zealand Medals

Lot 4298       New Zealand Medals

Estimate $1,000
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SOLD $650

NEW ZEALAND. Group of Four: Indian Mutiny Medal-no bar; New Zealand War Medal-1861-1866; Legion of Honour (France) Chevalier's Breast Badge; Empire Veterans Association Cross. Lieut. T. Broun 35th Regt/Capt 1st Waikato Regt. First medal impressed, second medal engraved, renamed. Generally very fine. $ Together with: Bestowal certificate for French award (19 May 1917); photograph of recipient in uniform wearing awards, detailed obituary, extracts from Who's Who in New Zealand; Dictionary of Biography; The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (includes phtograph of recipient) copy of letters relating to French award (which was awarded for assistance to French nationals in INdia during the mutiny sixty years previously); Biography from: The Collector', copy of late application for the New Zealand War Medal and accompanying statement. Broun, Thomas (1838-1919) was born and educated in Edinburgh and served in the Crimean War. He had a commission in the 35th Regiement in the Indian Mutiny after which he was invalided with cholera and retired (1862). Having married he came to New Zealand and in the Waikato War held a commission in the 1st Waikato Regiment. (Major N.Z.M. 1905). After the War he farmed at Opotiki for a few years, was teacher under the Auckland Education Board (1876-88). Boun was Governemnt Entomologist (1894-1905). For many years after 1866 he studied New Zealand insects and hge described about 2,000 species in his manual of New Zealand Coleoptera, and in British scientific publications. Broun was first drawn towards the study of entomology by observing in Burma. He died on 24 August 1919.