Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Maheidpoor (A. Simpson, 22nd Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £1800-2200

Provenance: Gray Collection 1920; Loxley Collection 1949; Elson Collection 1963; Alan Wolfe Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005.

Approximately 75 clasps for Maheidpore were issued to European recipients. The only British troops engaged were the 22nd Light Dragoons and the 1st Foot who received 30 and 37 clasps respectively.

Alexander Simpson was born in 1781 in the Parish of Dyke, near the town of Murray, Scotland, and was originally enlisted into the 73rd Foot on 11 April 1801, at the age of twenty. He served in the East Indies from 17 June 1802, and for the remainder of his military career. On 24 December 1805 he transferred into the 94th Foot, and on 25 September 1807, he was enlisted into the 22nd Light Dragoons at Madras. He was discharged in India in July 1820, on disbandment of the regiment and returned to England where he received his final discharge on 12 September 1820.