The Burma campaign medal awarded to Chief Engineer Henry Bush, for service aboard the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company’s steamer Pulu

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Chief Engineer Henry Bush I.F Coy’s Str. Pulu) official correction to part of Christian name, very fine £260-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Goddard Collection of Important Naval Medals and Nelson Letters.

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Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996.

The Pulu was a paddle steamer built in 1879 by Messrs William Denny of Glasgow. Her measurements were length 160 feet, width 24 feet, draught 7.7 feet. Her gross tonnage was 235 tons. She was sunk during a collision with Mandalay in 1897.