Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Colour Sergeant George Morrison, 61st Regiment
Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Corpl., 61st Foot); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (2009 Corpl., 61st Foot); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Delhi (Color-Serjt., 61st Regt.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better and a rare group (3)

Sold with a copy of the medal roll confirming the North West Frontier clasp. Only 74 clasps were issued to the 61st Regiment who had taken part in the Eusufzie expedition in December 1849, the earliest expedition for which the clasp could be claimed. By the time it was authorised, many members of the expedition had died or left the army. Morrison was a pensioner by the time he claimed his medal and clasp, the roll dated Curragh Camp, 5th October 1874.