Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Lieut. Edwd. Staines Daniell, 1st Madras Fusrs.) surname engraved, contact marks, otherwise very fine £300-350

Edward Staines Daniell was appointed Ensign in the Madras European Regiment on 14 June 1845, and was promoted Lieutenant in December 1849. He served in the Burmese War of 1852-53, including the capture of Pegu on 21 November when he was one of the first two men into the Pagoda. He also took part in the subsequent defence of Pegu, 5-14 December 1852, and the subsequent operations

During the defence an old iron gun was found by Privates McClory and Kelly of the Madras Fusiliers, ‘a bulldog looking thing,’ noted Lieutenant Jones-Parry, ‘with a touch hole as large as the handle of a church door. We had an excellent instructor in one Bombardier Sale, as grand an old soldier as ever wore a belt. The men who volunteered to form a gun crew were from No. 10 Company and their names, as far as I can remember, were Liptrot, Vincent, G. Moore, Weir, Saunders, Dunsheath and Denis Kelly. The fault of this infantry gun crew was that they were too fond of loosing off, thus causing a useless expenditure of ammunition, but it was difficult to check their ardour. On one occasion, however, Lieutenant E. S. Daniell was found seated on the gun, in front of an open embrasure, in order to prevent its being fired off unnecessarily

Daniell was promoted to Captain in February 1857, and served subsequently in the Indian Mutiny from February 1858. He was present at the Alumbagh and capture of Lucknow, and in the campaign in Oude in 1858, the passage of the Gumtree at Sultanpore, and in the minor actions at the Fort of Koili and Shahpore.