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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 673

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18 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£300

Colonel William Henry Wilson, Indian Army

Indian Mutiny
1857-59, no clasp (Ensign W. H. Wilson 18th Bombay N.I.) naming engraved in upright capitals, good very fine £150-200

Colonel Wilson took part in the operations against the insurgent Dessaies in the North Canara and Bedee districts in 1858 (Medal). He was later District Superintendent of Police at Nassick, and was promoted Colonel in December 1886.

See Lots 105, 184, 227, and 664 for related family medals