Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Bt. Lieut. Col. R. Shortreae, 2nd Bombay Eur. Regt. L.I.) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £800-1000

When appointed to the command of the 2nd Bombay European Light Infantry during the campaign in Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel Shortreed was fifty-five years old and had spent his entire career in the Bombay Trigonometrical Survey Department. According to the regimental history he was ‘plainly unfitted for command’ and was shortly afterwards superseded. Note incorrect spelling of surname on medal.