Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Meadows, 14th Light Dragoons, later a Yeoman Sergeant-Major

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Corpl. Fredk. Meadows, 14th Lt. Dragoons); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Corpl. F, Meadows. 14th Lgt. Drgns.); Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, bronze; Coronation 1902, bronze; Coronation 1911; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1693. Tp. Sergt. Mjr. F. Meadows, 14th Hussars) light contact marks, very fine or better (6) £1,200-£1,500

Provenance: Baldwin’s, May 1969, but then lacking Jubilee 1887/97 and Coronation 1911 which have been added to complete.

Frederick Meadows was born in about 1825 at Saxtend, Suffolk, and enlisted into the 14th Light Dragoons on 24 March 1849. He served in the East Indies from 28 September 1849 to 10 February 1860. He ‘served in the Persian Expedition of 1857; served with the Central India Field Force in 1857-58 under the command of Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B.; was present at the capture of Dhar 31st October, actions at Mundesore 21, 22, 23, & 24 November 1857, capture of Chandairee 1st March, battle of Betwa 1st April, siege and capture of Jhansi 5th April, action of Koonch 7th May, battle of Gallowli 22nd May, advance on and capture of Calpee and pursuit of the Rebels 23rd May, capture of Morar Cantonments 16 June, recapture of town and fortress of Gwalior 19 June 1858.’

He was promoted to Sergeant in March 1859; Orderly Room Clerk, September 1859; Troop Sergeant-Major, July 1862; Quarter Master Sergeant, October 1872. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal with Gratuity of £5 on 9 June 1870. Meadows was discharged at Dublin on 24 April 1874, on termination of his second period of limited engagement and was appointed to the Yeomen of the Guard on 10 May 1877. He was the only Yeoman of the Guard entitled to the clasp for Persia. In 1885, he was serving in the Second Division, and by the turn of the century he was a Yeoman Sergeant Major in the Third Division. He reverted to Yeoman on 31 March 1904, in consequence of ill health and died on 30 December 1911.