Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (W. Johnson) with gold pinned brooch bar, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £200-240

William Byrne Johnson was born at Allahabad on 19 July 1836, the son of William Johnson, sometime Clerk of the Sudder Board of Revenue, and Mary his wife, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Byrne, C.B. and a native woman named ‘Beebee’. After attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned an Ensign in the 55th Foot in June 1854. Serving as a Lieutenant in the Crimea, he was severely wounded in the storming of the Redan, 8 September 1855. He retired from the Army by the sale of his commission in August 1857. In Agra at the time of the Indian Mutiny, he served in the Agra Militia (Artillery). Later, residing with his grandmother, Beebee, he died in Simla on 6 August 1876. Sold with a folder of copied research.