Four: Gunner David Jones, Royal Artillery

CRIMEA 1854-55, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (A.F.B. Royal Artillery) regimentally impressed naming; INDIAN MUTINY 1857-58, no clasp (Gunnr., 11th Bde. Rl. Art.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., V.R. (435 Gunr. 11th Bde. R.A.); TURKISH CRIMEA, Sardinian issue, fitted with Crimea suspender, unnamed, edge knocks and contact marks, especially to the first, therefore good fine or better (4)

After serving in the Crimean War David Jones departed with the 8th Battery to Ceylon where they were stationed at Trincomali. On the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny No. 3 Co. 8th Battery was immediately dispatched to Calcutta and was thus the first Imperial Artillery unit to serve during the Mutiny. The Battery was commanded by Second Captain F.C. Maude and had only one subaltern and fifty-eight other ranks. It served with great distinction as the only artillery unit with Havelock's column, equipped as a six-gun bullock drawn field battery, at the battle of Cawnpore in July 1857. It fell to Maude's Battery to carry out several executions of mutineers by blowing them away from the muzzle of a 9-pounder gun. The little Battery continued to the relief of the Lucknow garrison and its gallant Captain was awarded the Victoria Cross. No. 3 Coy. 8 Batt. was renumbered No. 1 Battery 11 Brigade on 1 July 1859 and is today known as 76 (Maude's) H.A.A. Battery, R.A. David Jones's Mutiny Medal is therefore named to the unit as renumbered in July 1859. Sold with copy discharge papers and further research.