Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 89

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£470

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Bhootan, Perak (622 J. Wise, H.M’s 80th regt.) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £180-220

Sold with copy service papers which confirm medal for Bhootan and state that he suffered from chronic rheumatism contracted in Natal and from severe dysentery during the Perak Expedition. He was consequently discharged at Netley Hospital in June 1878, having enlisted at Longton, Staffordshire, in July 1859.