Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Delhi, Lucknow (Gunr Wm. Failes, 1st Bde. Bengl. H. Art.) minor edge bruising, therefore very fine £460-500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001.

William Failes served with 2nd Troop, 1st Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery, until his death in hospital at Lucknow, 9 May 1958.

This troop of the Bengal Horse Artillery is remembered in the Army today as 143 Battery (Tombs Troop) R.A., after Henry Tombs, one of the great outstanding officers of the Bengal Horse Artillery, whose Victoria Cross group of medals was sold in these rooms in December 2017.