Orders, Decorations and Medals

Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Central India (Capt. & Bt. Majr. S. O. E. Ludlow, Madras Engrs.) together with another similar medal named to him in the rank of Major, generally good very fine and a scarce double issue (2)

Samuel Edgar Owen Ludlow was an Addiscombe Cadet 1829-30, and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Madras Engineers, on 10 December 1830. He was engaged in the construction of the Fort St George Lighthouse 1841-44. During the Indian Mutiny, he served with the Kamptee Movable Column, August to September 1857, under Brigadier Miller and was present at the taking of the Fortified Village of Balacote, the Capture of the Fort Nursinghur, and engagements at Goba with the mutineers of the 52nd Bengal N.I., and Bundoolas. He commanded “L” Company, Madras Sappers & Miners, with Major General Whitlock’s Division of the Madras Column during the hot weather campaign as part of the Central India Field Force; took part in the advance on, and capture of Banda, the attack on Jheechung, the affair with the outposts of Banda Nawal’s army at Kubraee, and at the surrender of Kirwee. He retired in 1863 as Honorary Major General and died in Richmond, Surrey, on 7 June 1888.