Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lt. & At. J. S. D. Bolton. Sawunt. Warree. Lcl. Cps.) toned, good very fine £400-£500

John Shand Douglas Bolton was born on 20 August 1833. He was examined and passed for the H.E.I.C. Army on 26 March 1851, and sailed for India on the Ripon. Gazetted Ensign, 14 June 1851; Lieutenant, 23 November 1856; Captain, 14 June 1863; Major, 14 June 1871; Lieutenant-Colonel, 14 June 1877; Colonel, 1 July 1881.

In 1857 he served with the Persian Expeditionary Force as quartermaster and interpreter to the Light Battalion, and was present at the bombardment and capture of the forts of Mohumra, and the pursuit of the Persian Army (Medal with clasp). Commanded a field detachment under the orders of Brigadier-General Legrand Jacob, C.B., Political Commissioner in Kholapore and Sawunt Warree country in 1857-58, and present in the operations against the insurgent Sawunt Desaies in 1858. Served as Adjutant of the Sawunt Warree Local Corps from July 1857 to March 1859, and was actively employed during the considerable part of that time in hunting down mutineers and rebels; commanded the detail sent to the ghats West og Kholapore in December 1857 to check the would-be insurgents in that quarter; secured the ringleaders, and disarmed the inhabitants before they could rise en masse (Medal).

He was appointed Sub-Assistant Commissary General, 8 October 1867; transferred to the Unemployed Supernumerary List, 20 August 1891. Colonel Bolton died at Sidmouth, Devon, on 15 July 1892.