Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Gunner William Biggs, 1st Troop Horse Brigade Bombay Arty.) fitted with replacement clip and bar suspension, traces of brooch marks to obverse and naming slightly rubbed, otherwise very fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Robert Lamb.

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William Biggs was born in 1818, in Mitcham, Surrey, and enlisted in the Honourable East India Company Artillery in March 1838. He died on the line of march from Peshawar to Ferozepore on 14 December 1842, and was buried by an Artillery Officer at Mullyan.