The orders and medals to Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Le Guay Geary, K.C.B., Royal Artillery,

The orders and medals to Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Le Guay Geary, K.C.B., Royal Artillery, comprising: The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (military division), Knight Commander's neck badge and breast star, the badge with neck cravat and clasp, the badge with some loss to finish and minor enamel damage, the cravat frail and parting at one point, the star lacking the 'DIEN' part of the scroll and with some minor damage besides; Crimea Medal 1854-56, clasp: Sebastopol (HENRY LE GUAY. GEARY. R.A.), privately engraved in serif capitals with arabesques, much edge bruising, good fine; Indian Mutiny Medal 1857, no clasp (LIEUTENANT H. LE G. GEARY, R.A.), impressed with official alteration to name*, extremely fine; Abyssinia Medal 1867-68 (CAPTN. H. L. GEARY. ROYAL ARTL.), officially named in relief, very fine; Jubilee Medal 1897, silver (H. L. GEARY.), privately engraved in serif capitals, extremely fine or nearly so; Turkey: the Order of the Medjidieh, 5th class breast badge, some loss to enamel, good very fine; Turkey: Crimea Medal, Sardinian type, private clip suspension (H. L. GEARY. R.A.), privately engraved in plain capitals, very fine. [8]

Henry Le Guay Geary was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant from the Cadet Company, 28/02/1855, and promoted 1st Lieutenan in April of the same year. He served in the Crimea from May 1855, with the siege train in the trenched before Sevastopol. He served in India from October 1858, in the Jugdespore District and with the Gorruckpore Field Force. He became a Captain in May 1862. in January 1868 he joined Lieutenant-General Robert Napier's expedition to Abyssinia as Brigade Major Artillery, taking part in the action at Arogye and the capture of Magdala, and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 30/06/1868) and Brevetted Major. His Majority was confirmed in April 1868, and he rose to become a Lieutenant-General in October 1898.

* Presumably a late claim under General Order 771 of 1868.