Collectors often specialise in medals to a particular regiment, surname or campaign. This author is a regimental collector, but with a couple of ‘side collections’ relating to other aspects of the hobby that provide variation from a principal collecting theme.
The subject of this article is Henry de Teissier, who served as a junior officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery featured the Ghuznee medal awarded to Henry’s older brother, James FitzHerbert de Teissier.