Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 51

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£980

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (T. Wright, 89th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, very fine £700-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Series of Army of India Medals from an Old Collection.

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Thomas Wright was born at Wolverhampton and enlisted for the 89th Foot on 14 September 1816, aged 20. He served in the ‘Concan and Deccan wars under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Brothers and Major-General Sir W. Keir Grant in the years 1818-19; also in the Burman Empire from the commencement to the conclusion of the war in that country’. He was discharged in 1837, due to illness, his character stated as being ‘very good’.

Sold with copy discharge papers.