Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Lieut. Frederick Coventry 29th Regt.) good very fine £500-600

Frederick Coventry was born on 6 September 1820, eldest son of Frederick Coventry, Esq., grandson of Sir Henry Halford, Bart., and great-grandson of the sixth Earl of Coventry. He entered H.M.’s service on 1 June 1839 as an Ensign in the 29th Foot. He joined the regiment at Weedon, and afterwards served with it at Woolwich, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. On 26 October 1841 he was promoted to Lieutenant and, in April 1842, embarked with the regiment for Bengal, and landed at Calcutta towards the end of the following July. He accompanied the corps to Chinsurah, and thence to Ghazipur, where he arrived with it in December. In the autumn of 1843 he went home on leave, and was absent from India for two years. On his return he rejoined his regiment in the field during the Sutlej campaign, and was present with it at the battle of Sobraon on 10 February 1846 (Medal). On the 27th of the following month he was promoted to the rank of Captain. On the termination of the campaign he proceeded with the regiment to Kasauli, at which place he died, of liver complaint, on 29 July 1846. Sold with copied extracts from Soldiers of the Raj.