Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (J, Davie 2nd Bn. Mily. Train) suspension claw slack, contact marks, nearly very fine £200-240

John Davie was born in Inverery, Forfar, Scotland. He enlisted for the 2nd Dragoons at Aberdeen, December 1855. He embarked with the Regiment for India, March 1857. He was hospitalised in Calcutta, August-September 1857. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion Military Train, at Dum Dum, 6 February 1858. He was taken sick again at Dinapore in October 1858. The following month he was invalided to England, and discharged by purchase on 14 September 1859.