Lot Archive

Lot

№ 431

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20 September 2002

Hammer Price:
£1,200

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Fredk. C. Wittie, Yeoman Store Rooms, Shannon) good very fine £600-800

Severely wounded in the storming of the Begum’s Palace at Lucknow on 11 March 1858, and died from his wounds on 27 March. He had previously served in the Baltic aboard the Neptune. His Indian Mutiny medal was sent to his widow on 20 May 1861.