Auction Catalogue

19–21 June 2013

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 422

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19 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£300

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Pekin 1860 (Isaac Broughton, 99th Regt.), minor edge bruise, better than very fine £180-200

Isaac Broughton originally enlisted in the 1st Battalion, 60th Regiment, but was one of 79 volunteers from that unit to transfer to the 99th Regiment in February 1860.

Subsequently actively employed in the operations leading up to the capture of Pekin, he would have been present in the engagement fought at Palichao, shortly before the fall of Pekin, when the 99th ‘poured over the wooden bridge [on the Yang-liang canal] and turned in the Chinese camps and entrenchments. A final, disordered stand was made by the Chinese in front of their main camps but this disintegrated under the concentrated rifle fire of the 99th, advancing in skirmishing order and halting to discharge withering volleys. The few brave Chinese soldiers who stood to the last were bayoneted and the 99th moved through the camps, burning as they went’ (
The Wiltshire Regiment, by Tom Gibson, refers).

Attached to the Canton Police in 1861, Broughton was next embarked with the 99th for South Africa, where he died at East London in April 1865; sold with muster roll details.