SERGEANT (LATER COLOUR SERGEANT) W. GOUGH, DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT(95TH FOOT). Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Victoria, type 3, small letters reverse (officially engraved: 1594. SERGt. W. GOUGH. DERBY: R.). Almost Extremely Fine.

SERGEANT (LATER COLOUR SERGEANT) W. GOUGH, DERBYSHIRE REGIMENT(95TH FOOT). Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Victoria, type 3, small letters reverse (officially engraved: 1594. SERGt. W. GOUGH. DERBY: R.). Almost Extremely Fine.

Medal accompanied by 5 pages of photocopied service papers. William Gough was born in the parish of Great Nest, near the town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He enlisted on 21st June 1865, aged 22 years, and giving his trade as that of laboure, and initially saw service with the Scots Fusilier Guards, being posted to that regiment on 22nd June 1863. Gough was promoted Corporal, 1st July 1867, Sergeant, 28th September 1871, Colour Sergeant, 28th July 1875, and Quartermaster Sergeant 25th June 1879. Gough resigned as Quatermaster Sergeant 30th April 1881, and was appointed Canteen Sergeant the following day, 1st May 1881. He reverted to Sergeant on 18th November 1882, and subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment. Joining the 2nd Derbyshires on 24th November 1882, he was appointed Sergeant Instructor on the same day. Gough was subsequently promoted Acting Sergeant Major, 23rd September 1883, and promoted Colour Sergeant, 13th April 1885. His service record also notes that he was allowed to “reckon 1 year and 70 days former service in 53rd Foot towards GC pay & pension”, though his service papers give not indication as to when this 1 year and 70 days with the 53rd Foot took place (Gough was 22 years of age at the time of his enlistment, and though he claimed at the time not to have seen prior service with either the militia or regular armed forces, it may be that his service with the 53rd Foot prior to his enlistment into the Scots Fusilier Guards). Medal also accompanied by photocopy from Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Roll for the Derbyshire Regiment, confirming that Gough was recommended for his LSGC on 1st January 1884. Gough’s military service papers note that his entire period of service with the army was at home. He never saw active service, and was discharged to a pension on 31st July 1890, with total reckonable service of 25 years and 40 days, the Army LSGC being his sole medal entitlement. He married, 9th February 1870, Mary Ann Brown, at St Stephen’s, Westminster, and they had 7 children, 1 boy and 6 girls, all born between 1876 and 1886.