Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (Lieut. C. Herbert, 18th Bengal N.I.) fitted with silver ribbon buckles, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise about nearly very fine £350-400

Charles Herbert was born in London on 24 November 1820, and was first commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 18th Bengal Native Infantry on 30 January 1841, becoming Lieutenant in December 1845. During the campaign in the Punjab, he assumed command of the Fort at Attock on 1 September 1848, and defended it against the rebel forces under Sirdar Chattar Sing, from 10 November 1848 to 2 January 1849 (Medal and Brevet of Major).

Serving on the Bengal Staff, he became the Governor General’s Agent to the King of Oudh in May 1861, additionally to be employed as Superintendent of the Mysore Princes and ex-Ameers of Scinde. From January 1864, through 1868, Herbert was Superintendent of Political Pensioners, and in May 1868 he functioned as Officiating Political Agent to Turkish Arabia in Baghdad. From 1876 until his retirement as a Major-General in September 1878, Herbert was Political Agent at Oodeypore. He died at Tunbridge Wells on 18 November 1897.