Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Quarter-Master J. Goodfellow, 26th Regiment, late 14th Foot

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Qr. Mr. Serjt. J. Goodfellow, 14th Foot), short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming; China 1842 (J. Goodfellow Qr. Mastr. 26th Regiment Foot) this last with slightly bent re-fixed suspension, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally about very fine or better (2) £1600-1800

Joseph Goodfellow was born in Leicester and enlisted in the 14th Foot in May 1810. Arriving in India in August 1812, where he would remain employed until July 1834, he was present in the Nepal operations of 1814-15 and at the siege and capture of Mattras Fort in the Mahratta Campaign of 1817-18. Advanced to Colour-Sergeant in February 1822 and to Quarter-Master Sergeant in October 1824, Goodfellow next saw action in the Bhurtpoor operations in 1826. Then in February 1828 he was appointed Quarter-Master in the 38th Foot, in which rank he was again transferred, in September 1835, to the 26th Regiment, with whom he witnessed extensive active service in the First China War 1840-42: ‘Present at the capture of Chusan, at the operations before Canton, the repulse of the night attack on the city of Ningpo, the attack and capture of the enemy’s entrenched camp on the heights of Segoan, the attack and capture of Chapoo, at the taking of Shanghai and Woosung, the assault and capture of Chin Kiang Foo and the investment of Nanking’. Goodfellow latterly served in the 10th Foot and retired on half-pay in March 1848.