Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Gunner Patrick Killian 1st Troop Horse Brigade Bombay Arty.) fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Bombay Artillery.

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Provenance: Bought Baldwin 1959.

Approximately 360 medals awarded to European recipients with this reverse, including 138 to 1st Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery.

Patrick Killian was born in 1809, a native of Mullangar, County Westmeath.

A Servant by trade, he enlisted at Westminster on 6 October 1829, for unlimited service, aged 20. He embarked for India on 31 December 1829, in the Duchess of Atholl, arriving on 17 April 1830. Posted to the 1st Company, 1st Battalion, Bombay Artillery, he transferred to 1st Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery, on 20 September 1833, and served with this Troop during the first Afghan and Scinde campaigns.

He was pensioned on 16 December 1844.