Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A mid-victorian presentation pewter tankard to Lieutenant-Colonel C. Pigou, late Indian Army, glass base, by Dixon & Sons, engraved with the crest of the School of Musketry, Hythe, and ‘June 1864, Best Shot No. 4 Section, Lieut. C. Pigou, 104th Regt.’, together with a later pewter tankard with inscription, ‘Officers Mess, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Rawalpindi’, this with small dent and cracked glass base, otherwise generally in good condition (2) £30-50

Clement Pigou entered the Bengal Army as an Ensign in 1850 and, having joined the 3rd Bengal European Regiment in early 1854, went on to witness active service in the Indian Mutiny 1857-58, when he was ‘present in the actions near Agra against the Neemuch mutineers on 5 July, and against the Indore rebels on 10 October, also with Seaton’s Column at Gungeeree and Putialee, and with the Agra Column towards Gwalior in June 1858 (Medal)’. Advanced to Captain in the 104th Regiment in October 1864, shortly after attending the Musketry School at Hythe, Pigou latterly served in the 64th Regiment and as Adjutant of the Claire Militia, prior to being placed on the Retired List as a Lt-Colonel. He died at Cheltenham in June 1885. His Indian Mutiny Medal was sold by Spink in 1988.