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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£900

Four: Sergeant E. Lane, 6th Dragoon Guards, later 1st Dragoon Guards, who was slightly wounded at Narnoul during the Indian Mutiny on 16 November 1857

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte. E. Lane. 6th. Dgn. Gds.) contemporarily engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Edwd. Lane, 6th. Dragn. Gds.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (849. Sergt. E. Lane 1st. Dragn. Gds.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (E. Lane. 6th. Dgn. Gds.) contemporarily engraved naming, plugged and fitted with Crimea-style suspension, heavy contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £500-£700

Edward Lane attested for the 6th Dragoon Guards, and served with them during the Crimean War, and in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, where he was slightly wounded at Narnoul on 16 November 1857.

Note: The latest published transcript of the Indian Mutiny Medal Roll shows the recipient as being entitled to the clasp for Delhi.