Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Purser Lindsay Wilson, Indian Navy

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (L. Wilson, Purser. Ajdaha, S.F.); China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Purser L. Wilson H M Str. Ferooz I N.) officially impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2)
£1200-1400

Lindsay Wilson was the son of Commander John Henry Wilson, Indian Navy, who is remembered as the commander of the steam ship Hugh Lindsay which carried the first overland mail from India to Suez in March-April 1830, thereby reducing by some four months the average journey time from India to Britain. Lindsay Wilson died on 10 February 1870.

See Lots 105, 227, 664 and 673 for related family medals