Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Sapper Thos. Armstrong, 23rd. Co. Royal Engrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, edge bruising, nearly very fine £200-£240

Thomas Armstrong was born in Ovingham, Northumberland, in 1833 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 30 December 1857. He served with 23rd Company, Royal Engineers in India and China from May 1859 to February 1862, and was discharged medically unfit on 15 July 1872, after 14 years and 198 days’ service, which had, however, regularly been interrupted by periods of desertion and absence without leave.

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