Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Thos. Lillymore. 11th Lt. Dragoons.) long hyphen reverse, impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £700-£900

Provenance: Glendining’s, September 1919; Baldwins 1950.

Thomas Lillymore was born in the Parish of Thetford, Norfolk, and enlisted into the 25th Light Dragoons on 13 March 1810. He went to India with the 24th Light Dragoons in 1814, transferred to the 21st Light Dragoons in 1818 and to the 11th Light Dragoons in 1819, with whom he served at the siege of Bhurtpoor, 28 December 1825 to 21 January 1826. He returned to England in 1837 after 23 years in India, and was discharged at Chatham on 4 September 1837. Sold with a facsimile copy of Narrative of the Siege and Capture of Bhurtpore by J. N. Creighton, Captain, 11th Light Dragoons, originally published in 1830.