Orders, Decorations and Medals

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Captain C. S. B. Walton, Dumoh Mily. Police) naming officially engraved in fine running script, nearly extremely fine £300-350

Charles Sheridan Blackwood Walton was born on 24 April 1829. He was commissioned as Ensign into the 51st Madras Native Infantry on 20 February 1847, and was posted to the 28th Madras N.I. in May 1847. He served with a detachment of his regiment in the Saugor and Narbudda territories during the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and 1858 and was present at several minor engagements with the rebels.

He was posted to command the police at Dumoh during 1860, and became a District Superintendent of Police, 4th Class, Central Provinces, in July 1864, serving at Nursingpore. He became Captain in the 28th N.I. in January 1865, and subsequently served with the Mofussil Police and the Hoshangabad Police. He was appointed Colonel and second in command of the 9th N.I. in April 1876, and promoted to Major-General in May 1879. He died on 15 July 1889. Sold with full research.