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Pair: Colonel Charles Edward Montizambert, Royal Canadian Artillery Canada General Service 1866-70, 2 clasps, Fenian Raid 1866, Fenian Raid 1870 (Lt. Que. G.A.) impressed naming; North West Canada 1885, 1 clasp, Saskatchewan (Lt. Col., Regiment Canadian Artillery) privately impressed naming, first with light scratch to obverse, good very fine (2) £1200-1500 Footnote Charles Edward Montizambert was born in Quebec on 27 January 1841, the son of Edward Louis Montizambert, Law Clerk of the Senate. He was educated at the Upper Canada College, Toronto, which he entered in 1856. He entered the Volunteers on 5 January 1865 when he was appointed a 1st Lieutenant in No. 3 Battery of the Volunteer Garrison Artillery at Quebec. He was appointed Adjutant on 13 February 1866 and on 8 February 1867 was advanced to Captain. As a Lieutenant (later a Captain) in the Quebec Garrison Artillery he served in the operations occasioned by the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870, for which he later received the medal with two clasps. When in 1871 Canada raised its Permanent Artillery, he transferred to that force and was appointed to the command of ‘B’ Battery and the School of Gunnery at Quebec. He was appointed a Captain with effect in July 1874, Brevet Major on 8 February 1872 and, having been advanced to Major, was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 8 February 1877. In August 1882 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, appointed Commandant of the School of Artillery and Assistant Inspector of Artillery. In the North West Rebellion of 1885, he led the 1st Corps, with ‘A’ and ‘B’ Batteries, that made the passage through the snow and ice on the then unfinished portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway around the north shore of Lake Superior, joining Major-General Middleton’s column on the trail north of Fort Qu’Appelle. He was in action at the battles of Fish Creek (24 April 1885) and Batoche (9 May 1885), in command of the artillery. For his services he was mentioned in Major-General Middleton’s despatches (Canada Gazette 11 July 1885), recommended for the C.M.G. (not awarded) and awarded the medal with clasp. On 18 November 1895 he was appointed Inspector of Artillery and on 15 July 1897 became the District Officer Commanding Military District Nos. 3 & 4 at Kingston. Montizambert attained the rank of Colonel on 17 May 1901 and retired on 15 November 1903. Sold with a quantity of copied research.