Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Empress of India 1877, 58mm, silver, the edge named (Presented to Regl. Sgt. Maj. T. Stuart, 10th Hussars. Delhi 1st Janry. ‘77) with replacement straight bar suspension, contact marks in reverse fields and a few edge bruises, otherwise very fine £400-£500

Thomas Stuart was born in the Parish of St Mary’s, Leicester, and enlisted into the 10th Hussars on 8 December 1859, aged 18, an apprentice millwright. As Regimental Sergeant Major he was selected to receive the Empress of India Medal in January 1877. He was slightly wounded by a knife wound at the battle of Fatehabad on 2 April 1879, during the war in Afghanistan (Medal with clasp for Ali Musjid). When he was discharged at Lucknow on 15 March 1881, he was also in possession of the L.S. & G.C. medal. He was afterwards awarded the Meritorious Service Medal with an Annuity of £15 on 14 July 1889. He died on 17 January 1910.