Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ghuznee 1839 (Pt John Astier XIII P.A.L.I.) regimentally impressed naming, fitted with a contemporary replacement wide silver bar suspension, contact marks, therefore good fine

John Astier was born at Mullingar, County Westmeath, and attested for the 13th Light Infantry at Parsonstown, King’s County, on 1 March 1825, aged 21, a shoe maker by trade. He was discharged in the rank of Sergeant at Chatham on 14 August 1846, being unfit for further service and ‘in possession of three medals viz: For the storming of Ghuznee, General action at Jellalabad and the Capture of Cabool.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.