Seven medals displayed separately in a sealed frame by Spink & Son. The Indian Mutiny Medal and the India General Service Medal (with clasp Burma 1885-7) were awarded to the celebrated Victorian Photographer Colonel Willoughby Wallace Hooper of the Madras Cavalry (1837 - 1912). The Indian Mutiny Medal is inscribed "Cornet Hooper" and the Indian General Service Medal is inscribed "WW Hooper". Colonel Hooper was the Provost Marshal of the Expeditionary Force which annexed Upper Burma in 1885. He was well known for his remarkable ethnographical photographs of India dating from 1861 which were later published in the "People of India".

The next five medals were awarded to Colonel Hooper's nephew Major Gerald Haslam of the Royal Irish Regiment. They are: The India Medal (clasps Punjab Frontier 1897-8 and Samana 1897), Queen's South Africa Medal (clasps Transvaal and South Africa 1902), First World War pair, War and Victory Medals and the Second World War Defence Medal.

All seven medals and ribbons are in excellent condition and make a truly unique and historic collection dating from 1858 - 1945.