Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (M. Butcher, 1st Bn. 60th R. Rifles.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £400-460

Moses Butcher was born in the Parish of Sutton, Cambridge, and attested at Huntingdon for the 28th Foot on 15 January 1844, aged 18. He served in the ‘East Indies, Lower & Upper Scinde & the Punjaub from 3rd November 1844 to 30 September 1850.’ He volunteered to the 1/60th on 1 December 1847 and served with that regiment at the siege and capture of Mooltan, 27 December 1848 to 22 January 1849. He was discharged on 30 September 1850, ‘being found unfit for further service’. Sold with copied discharge papers.