Auction Catalogue

27 & 28 September 2016

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Lot

№ 1028

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Captain J. A. Scott H.M. 1st. Regt. Light Cavalry) with original brass hock and ring suspension, good very fine £800-1000

John Augustus Scott was born in Calcutta on 1 July 1803. Commissioned Cornet on 3 April 1820, he was posted to the 1st Light Cavalry on 22 August of that year, and served throughout his career with that Regiment. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 May 1824 and Captain on 24 October 1828, he served during the First Afghan War in 1842 and was Mentioned in Despatches for his services at the Tezeen Pass (London Gazette 24 November 1842) on the road to Kabul as part of Major-General George Pollock’s Force, where on 13 September 1842 he lead a squadron of the 1st Bengal Light Cavalry in the famous charge which routed 2,000 of Akbar Khan’s horsemen and captured an Afghan standard. He subsequently served as part of General Sir Hugh Gough’s Force in the Gwalior Campaign, and was present at the Battle of Maharajpoor, 29 December 1843. The Commanding Officer of the Regiment, Major G. R. Crommelin, was killed in the battle and Scott succeeded to the command of the Regiment and was promoted to Major three days later on 1 January 1844. He was invalided on 4 April 1844, and died at Meerut on 2 December 1845.