Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Lieut. H: R: Evans 10th Regt), the suspension contemporarily altered to take a wide riband, with contemporary silver riband buckle and top riband bar, the last engraved ‘Sobraon’, good very fine £600-700

Provenance: Sotheby, February 1975.

Henry Roe Evans was born in August 1822, and commissioned Ensign, 38th Foot, in May 1839. He transferred as Lieutenant to the 10th Foot, in July 1842. He served with the Regiment during the Sutlej campaign, 1845-46, and was wounded in the head at Sobraon, 10 February 1846. At the latter the 10th Foot suffered casualties of one officer, one N.C.O. and twenty-eight men killed, and two officers, two N.C.O.’s and ninety-eight men wounded. Evans transferred to the 63rd Foot in June 1848.